[BRLTTY] Multi-column characters on Linux

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [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.

It certainly does fix the alignment issues I used to have with many 
unicode characters.


Nicolas