Re: lib/57798: With src/share/locale/ctype/en_US.UTF-8.src, wcwidth() returns 3 when ja_JP.UTF-8 locale is used

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

The following reply was made to PR lib/57798; 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,
        ryo%tetera.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/57798: With src/share/locale/ctype/en_US.UTF-8.src,
 wcwidth() returns 3 when ja_JP.UTF-8 locale is used
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:20:32 +1030

 On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 04:00:03AM +0000, Rin Okuyama wrote:
 >  
 >  ryoon@, do you have some ideas to test this change? For what
 >  application have you encountered this problem? Is it fixed now
 >  without regression?
 >  
 
 Our wide curses relies on wcwidth to determine cursor positioning and call widths, so any
 curses based application attempting to display these characters will have a corrupted
 display.>  
 
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