Fully support non-ascii characters in Meter-Bar

Currently the code does not handle multi-byte characters, so length-
computations take the raw count of C characters and not the to displayed
size into account.

An example is the degree sign for temperatures.

Closes: #329

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/RichString.c b/RichString.c
index 904b44b6..1d2a3fee 100644
--- a/RichString.c
+++ b/RichString.c
@@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ void RichString_prune(RichString* this) {
    this->chptr = this->chstr;
 }
 
+void RichString_appendChr(RichString* this, char c, int count) {
+   int from = this->chlen;
+   int newLen = from + count;
+   RichString_setLen(this, newLen);
+   for (int i = from; i < newLen; i++) {
+      RichString_setChar(this, i, c);
+   }
+}
+
 void RichString_setAttr(RichString* this, int attrs) {
    RichString_setAttrn(this, attrs, 0, this->chlen - 1);
 }