From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2010-05-19T22:07:09+09:00
Subject: Re: wcswidth, ruby 1.9, and string encodings

Reformatted excerpts from William Morgan's message of 2010-05-10:
> I need one other bit of functionality too: the ability to get a
> substring of a specific display width. I assume that is beyond the
> scope of your terminfo package, so I am probably going to wrap the two
> methods up into a gem.

I've finally pulled these together into a gem:

http://rubygems.org/gems/console

If anyone else is interested in writing i18n-capable console
applications, this should be pretty useful for you. Unfortunately I
haven't quite gotten it to work with Ruby 1.8. Any help on that front
would be appreciated.

Blog post with a little more background: http://all-thing.net/string-width
-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>