Re: mis-handling of combining characters

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 02:32:36AM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the attached excerpt, stripped down to almost the minimum to
> experience it, the combining characters in the “Zalgo” part seem
> to be considered as adding to the line width, therefore breaking
> too early:
> 
>    “Ȩ̶̛ņ̶̛Ơ̶̙U̶̡
>    g̵̢H̷̳” Shikamaru entoned with fury. His were
>    black pools that seemed to be dripping, melting.
> 
> 
>    “ I am exacting my
>    V̵̡e̷̢ņ̷̤G̴̨
>    ̺̠ȩ̴̣Ą̶̱N̶̛
>    ̀̓C̴̢E̴̡” Shikamaru, no, the
>    shadows spoke.
> 
> (this time in an 80c-wide xterm at Ian’s special request)
> 
> I would expect (first line possibly justified with extra spaces):

agreed - (reviewing a patch for this would be interesting).

Lynx doesn't do anything with combining characters.
That's done only in ncurses (or slang)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
https://invisible-island.net

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