Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 06:51:55PM +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> That computation is broken in the world of variable-width characters
> anyway.
O.K. I believe that I am starting to agree with you.
That computation is valid in the fixed-width characters, tty
world,
and nowhere else.
That proves not to be the case. What about characters that display as
control characters `^M', or octal sequences `\210'?