> One potential alternative is that, given Unicode 3.2 has just
> introduced the notion of variation selectors, we ask the
> UTC and WG2 to consider the addition of two special variation
> selectors for single-width and double-width selection of glyphs
> in the East Asian ambiguous class. That would be most easy to
> implement with existing font display engines that feature ligature
> substitution. That would be a way of allowing applications or
> encoding translation filters to have tight control over the
> width of a character on a character cell terminal, without
> the introduction of new ESC sequences. The a font could easily
> contain both narrow (CP437) and wide (JIS) versions of the
> U+25xx box drawing characters, etc.
An excellent idea! Please send something to the Unicode list.
Werner
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