Wide character support in meter text#1648
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The new logic reads the source buffer exactly once and moves the accumulated buffer in the dedicated buffer. This implementation avoids VLAs and instead uses a dedicated buffer allocated with xCalloc. The buffer is guaranteed to be at least 40 characters wide, meaning on narrow displays horizontal scrolling will be necessary. Doing so ensures a half-decent chance for arguments to fit fully in one line.
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* String_makePrintable() * EncodePrintableString() * String_lineBreakWidth() * String_mbswidth() Signed-off-by: Kang-Che Sung <explorer09@gmail.com>
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This PR will be a set of experimental changes I would like to do for meters. The meter
drawroutines were not capable of calculating the terminal widths when the meter text or caption contains wide (ｗｉｄｅ) or combining characters (e.g. Zalgo text). And this PR will make it possible.Currently I've done with the bar meter mode. The LED meter mode will be the next.
This PR uses the routines from #1642 to make calculating the terminal widths of multibyte strings easy.