Re: [Bug-wget] patch: Improve the rolling file name length for downloading progress image when without NLS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:44:02 +0100
> From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>         address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:38:40PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Fonts indeed can affect the visual width, but if we assume that the
> > terminal font is a fixed-pitch one, that problem is much less
> > significant, IME.
> 
> Experience shows that one may get a single-width replacement symbol
> when the actual double width symbol is not available.

That happens, yes.  But again, it's unrelated to the encoding of the
writes to the terminal.  It only depends on the terminal fonts used.