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drop width from the protocol spec#1649

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Removed the width parameter from the r verb (introduced in v1.7).

A registration cannot override its codepoint's cell width: registered glyphs are always one cell, matching the codepoint's wcwidth / UAX #11 width (1 for every PUA codepoint). Cell width is not the terminal's alone to decide, interactive applications (shells/line editors, TUIs, multiplexers) independently compute column counts with their own wcwidth, and a terminal-only width override is invisible to them, so a declared-wide glyph desyncs the cursor between terminal and application.

We could potentially fix this later but frankly is better to rely on wcwidth now to don't break tools.

If you really want to have two cells icons, you can have a glyph registered plus a space (this is will be settled up by your side) + rely on baseline rasterizer that scales to the font size rasterize_payload, it gets pixel_size = size_u16 (the font size in px). It will for any tool that uses wcwidth.

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