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* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Add new link libs. 

* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Explain locale-specific wcwidth
	feature.
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2009-06-19 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7-misc): Add new link libs.
* setup2.sgml (setup-locale-ov): Explain locale-specific wcwidth
feature.
2009-06-12 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.emacs): Update.

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<screen>
- New ldd utility, similar to Linux.
- New link libraries libdl.a, libresolve.a, librt.a.
- Fallout from the long path names: If the current working directory is
longer than 260 bytes, or if the current working directory is a virtual
path (like /proc, /cygdrive, //server), don't call native Win32 programs

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</para>
<para>
Right now the language and territory content is not evaluated by Cygwin any
further. The only important part so far is the character set. How does that
work?
</para>
Right now the language and territory, as well as the modifier, are not
important to Cygwin, except to fix a single problem. There's a class of
characters in the Unicode character set, called the "CJK Ambiguous Width
Character set". For these characters the width returned by the
wcwidth/wcswidth function is usually 1. This is often a problem in
East-Asian languages, which historically use character sets in which
these characters have a width of 2. Kind of explains why they are
called "ambiguous"...</para>
<para>
The problem has been fixed for now like this. wcwidth/wcswidth usually
return 1 as the width of these characters. However, if the language is
specifed as "ja" (Japanese), "ko" (Korean), or "zh" (Chinese), wcwidth
returns 2 for these characters. Unfortunately this isn't correct in
all circumstances, so the user can specify the modifier "@cjknarrow",
which modifies the behaviour of wcwidth/wcswidth to return 1 for the
ambiguous width characters to return 1 even in those languages.</para>
<para>
Other than that, the only important part so far is the character set.
How does that work?</para>
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