[BRLTTY] Multi-column characters on Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2021/10/04 at 15:50 +0300]

>I would also like to get rid of this space removal right away, because I'm
>debugging alignment issues, and I might provide misinformation to developers
>because of this. Could you please tell me the location of the code
>implementing this, so I can comment it out even before this is made
>configurable. 

On line 1114 of the Linux screen driver you'll find: blanks = getCharacterWidth(wc) - 1;

Try changing the value to 0 (i.e. as if getting the width returned 1 all the time). Let me know if that does what you need.

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