John Novak

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What platform are you using? On Windows, multibyte character support is problematic in the standard command prompt. It should work a lot better on Linux and MacOS. Internally, illwill uses...

So judging by your screenshot, I think what's happening is that the Japanese characters physically seem to take up the width of two Latin characters, but they're encoded as multiple...

Cheers, I'm busy with other stuff now, I'll have a look at this at some point.

Great analysis! I haven't worked on this library for the last three years, so probably right now you have a better understanding of how it works than myself :) PRs...

Based on the stacktrace, this seems to be happening in your code, not in illwill.

> I can see it in the examples though. Ok I'll have a look at them.

Are you guys going to merge a fix for this in? It would definitely help windows users (such as myself), and other terminal emulators like mintty are handling this correctly...

@andrewvaughanj That change of yours looks promising, why don't just raise a PR for it? Hopefully the maintainers will merge it in then.

Well, sad to hear that. That's an interesting viewpoint; ultimately, you need to make things work for the user as they expect them to (like mintty does). If that means...

Understand the part that they don't care about Windows; I have some apps that I developed in a cross-platform manner, and while I could make them work on Linux besides...