Re: [PATCH 11/11] vt: pad double-width code points with a zero-white-space

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 10. 04. 25, 3:14, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> From: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
> 
> In the Unicode screen buffer, we follow double-width code points with a
> space to maintain proper column alignment. This, however, creates
> semantic problems when e.g. using cut and paste or selection.
> 
> Let's use a better code point for the column padding's purpose i.e. a
> zero-white-space rather than a full space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
> ---
>   drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 11 ++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> index e3d35c4f92..dc84f9c6b7 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> @@ -2937,12 +2937,13 @@ static int vc_con_write_normal(struct vc_data *vc, int tc, int c,
>   			width = 2;
>   		} else if (ucs_is_zero_width(c)) {
>   			prev_c = vc_uniscr_getc(vc, -1);
> -			if (prev_c == ' ' &&
> +			if (prev_c == 0x200B &&

Then introduce a NAME (macro) for this.

thanks,
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js
suse labs