+2012-01-29 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ wcwidth: Work around bug in UTF-8 locale on OpenBSD 5.0.
+ * m4/wcwidth.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCWIDTH): Test also wcwidth of U+05B0.
+ * doc/posix-functions/wcwidth.texi: Mention the OpenBSD 5.0 bug.
+
2012-01-29 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
quotearg: Fix test failure on MacOS X 10.5.
@item
This function handles combining characters in UTF-8 locales incorrectly on some
platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3.
+MacOS X 10.3, OpenBSD 5.0.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
-# wcwidth.m4 serial 21
+# wcwidth.m4 serial 22
dnl Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
if test $ac_cv_func_wcwidth = yes; then
HAVE_WCWIDTH=1
dnl On MacOS X 10.3, wcwidth(0x0301) (COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT) returns 1.
+ dnl On OpenBSD 5.0, wcwidth(0x05B0) (HEBREW POINT SHEVA) returns 1.
dnl On OSF/1 5.1, wcwidth(0x200B) (ZERO WIDTH SPACE) returns 1.
dnl This leads to bugs in 'ls' (coreutils).
AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales],
{
if (wcwidth (0x0301) > 0)
result |= 1;
- if (wcwidth (0x200B) > 0)
+ if (wcwidth (0x05B0) > 0)
result |= 2;
+ if (wcwidth (0x200B) > 0)
+ result |= 4;
}
return result;
}]])],