Re: lib/55433: Bug in special character handling of ins_wstr() of libcurses

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/55433; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        jnaman806%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/55433: Bug in special character handling of ins_wstr() of
 libcurses
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:18:01 +0930

 On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:50:02PM +0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > 
 >  wins_nwstr - the worker function doesn't seem to handle special
 >  character correctly in its first part as it computes wcwidth of the
 >  whole argument.
 >  
 >  As an aside, insstr() &c don't even pretend to try to handle special
 >  characters.
 >  
 
 They should according to SUS v2 so we should be doing it.
 
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