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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-06-19 09:33:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2009-06-19 09:33:45 +0000 |
| commit | d66550cae65713abd86ec9633bc7b17ca8af6171 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ff7f48019d69776f0576c37c61b91a58c41117b | |
| parent | 344ea7b658c4b9d4f5133ab3cedc9ec24f4f7e33 (diff) | |
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* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Add new link libs.
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Explain locale-specific wcwidth
feature.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 2 | ||||
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diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 910f970bc..32039c9c5 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-06-19 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Add new link libs. + * setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Explain locale-specific wcwidth + feature. + 2009-06-12 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> * faq-using.xml (faq.using.emacs): Update. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 2e27f0329..8139696a4 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -268,6 +268,8 @@ <screen> - New ldd utility, similar to Linux. +- New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a. + - Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index a5c8f3da4..49dd3e0e8 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -177,10 +177,27 @@ default ASCII-only behaviour. </para> <para> -Right now the language and territory content is not evaluated by Cygwin any -further. The only important part so far is the character set. How does that -work? -</para> +Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not +important to Cygwin, except to fix a single problem. There's a class of +characters in the Unicode character set, called the "CJK Ambiguous Width +Character set". For these characters the width returned by the +wcwidth/wcswidth function is usually 1. This is often a problem in +East-Asian languages, which historically use character sets in which +these characters have a width of 2. Kind of explains why they are +called "ambiguous"...</para> + +<para> +The problem has been fixed for now like this. wcwidth/wcswidth usually +return 1 as the width of these characters. However, if the language is +specifed as "ja" (Japanese), "ko" (Korean), or "zh" (Chinese), wcwidth +returns 2 for these characters. Unfortunately this isn't correct in +all circumstances, so the user can specify the modifier "@cjknarrow", +which modifies the behaviour of wcwidth/wcswidth to return 1 for the +ambiguous width characters to return 1 even in those languages.</para> + +<para> +Other than that, the only important part so far is the character set. +How does that work?</para> </sect2> |