id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	branch_state	votes
3262	"Inconsistent ""char_width"" usage in source"	egmont		"In the source code, ""char_width"" or ""cw"" usually (especially in the viewer and editor) refers to the UTF-8 encoded byte length, while sometimes (e.g. strutilutf8.c str_utf8_term_char_width()) to the number of the character cells occupied in the terminal.

The former usage is incorrect, misleading, makes it harder to read/write source code. It should be search/replaced to byte_length or something similar. The word ""width"" should always refer to the number of character cells occupied by the Unicode codepoint, never to the number of bytes required to encode it."	enhancement	closed	minor	4.8.14	mc-core	master	fixed					no branch