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Re: emacs-unicode-2: #xFF01 .. #xFF60 should be set double width in char


From: James Cloos
Subject: Re: emacs-unicode-2: #xFF01 .. #xFF60 should be set double width in char-width-table
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:32:32 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Kenichi" == Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

Kenichi> They are ambiguous according to EastAsianWidth.txt of
Kenichi> Unicode.  I think the right thing is to set them to the
Kenichi> symbol `ambiguous', and make display routine (and column
Kenichi> calculation routine) to resolve it to 1 or 2 by checking a
Kenichi> font (or a capability of terminal).  In a case that such
Kenichi> information is not available, perhaps, we should resolve
Kenichi> according to the current locale.

Does the current locale influence the current font?  Modulus that
issue I agree that the above is exactly what any app ought to do
with the ambiguous-width chars.

(Another related -- and I presume mostly theoretical -- question
is what should be done when such a character is part of a combining
or variation sequence....)

-JimC
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James Cloos <address@hidden>         OpenPGP: 0xED7DAEA6




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