[Toybox] [PATCH] ls: Ensure file names are separated by 2 spaces
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Oct 27 15:24:00 PDT 2019
On 10/25/19 3:21 PM, Andrew Ilijic wrote:
> Hi Jarno,
>
> Thank you for your email. It caused me to learn a lot about Unicode
> today. I still need to collect my thoughts but I wanted to respond to
> your email. I tried throwing all kinds of crazy Unicode at XTerm,
> Gnome Terminal, and Suckless Terminal. I don't think any of them do
> the "right" thing in all cases but, XTerm seems to be the best. `ls`
> seems to be handling combining characters well. I am going to compare
> how `cut` and `ls` handle clipping the string. I have started to
> implement the column (`-w`) option in `ls` so I may shoot you an email
> if I have questions.
I've tried to get Rich Felker to put his http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/uuterm/
up on github for years.
I believe the point of it was to be simple and correct.
Rob
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