Kaixo! On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:41PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> > I believe satisfies that language combination pretty well. If you do > > wcwidth switching (not merging!) this 18x18ja font with 9x18, you cover > > XTerm does the wcwidth switching (though it does have only one mode > of EastAsianAmbiguous=1). However, this is because XTerm is developed > by i18n-knowing people. For average X apprication developers, I think > such "switching" is already a "complex rendering". No, xterm does it because it is a column based text only applkication; the width in columns is very important to know. For almost all other programs it is irrelevant (and proportionnal fonts are used). > Thus, I think we need bi-width or variable-width fonts which covers > as many codepoints of Unicode as possible, like the combination of > 9x18 and 18x18ja can do. How do you think about this idea? You only need that for charcell fonts. I have already seen Japanese text written with proportionnal fonts (well, only non-kanji were proportional (quotes, punctuation, small hiragana, where a bit narrower)), so the problem is not a CJK related one, but rather an xterm related one, imho. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
