Werner LEMBERG wrote on 2002-02-04 15:23 UTC: > > > 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.
I'm not on unicode at the moment, but I have just written up a few lines on the idea on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/scw-proposal.html#selector Feel free to forward this there. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
