Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people

[Robert Brady]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Stefan Baums wrote:

> What about Indian scripts?  In Devanagari typesetting, one akshara
> (consonant [+ vowel [+ anusvara / visarga]] cluster) takes up roughly
> as much horizontal space as two latin-script letters, is certainly
> square in shape, and the space is needed for all the details of the
> akshara.  A Devanagari font that is supposed to be used with a 9x18
> latin one should probably be 18x18.

Alas, Indic scripts don't quite fit with the wcwidth() model.

Imagine

  wcswidth() of                                should be
       
      KA                                         1
      KA VIRAMA                                  1
      KA RA                                      2
      KA VIRAMA RA                               1

We need a far more complicated texthandling mechanism than wcwidth() for
doing Indic...

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Robert Brady
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