Ticket #2292 (closed defect: fixed)
mcview: CJK character dropped at linewrap
| Reported by: | egmont | Owned by: | angel_il |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 4.8.14 |
| Component: | mcview | Version: | 4.7.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | #3248 | |
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
View a file containing lots of double width characters (just as the attached one) in mcview. Turn on wordwrapping.
When a full CJK character doesn't fit at the end of the line (there's only a single cell remaining), a '>' sign is shown, and this CJK character is dropped. The next line continues with the character after this. (See screenshot, the first example is: the middle letter of the double-wide "ｔｈｅ" word is not displayed.)
In order to be able to read the text, the character that doesn't fit in the first line should entirely go to the second. The first line should end with a space character. (By the way, this is what CJK-aware terminals do when you simply cat the file.)
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Change History
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by angel_il
- Owner set to angel_il
- Status changed from new to accepted
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by andrew_b
- Branch state set to no branch
- Milestone changed from 4.7 to Future Releases
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by egmont
The '>' sign is slang's choice when a CJK is printed in the rightmost column of the terminal. Ncurses uses a space instead.
When the viewer doesn't take up the whole width of the terminal (e.g. one of the file manager panels is in "Quick view" mode), such CJK characters overflow out of the viewer into the frame.
Obviously, both in wrap and unwrap mode, mcview should be clever enough never to print a CJK that would overflow from the actual viewer area.
