Hello,
> From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I understand, that there are also the block graphic characters. If you
> live in a world where you use mostly double-width glyphs in terminal
> emulators, it might be convenient to also have double-width block
> graphics characters. The answer of the Unicode consortium is very simple
> here: Nobody should be using the block graphics characters anyway. their
> use is deprecated, and they are only in Unicode to guarantee round-trip
> compatibility with legacy sets. In modern display systems (such as
> HTML), you have appropriate alternative means such as table constructs
> to do what you used to use block graphics for.
At least, a text-based browser w3m has to use the block graphic
characters for rendering of HTML. Ok, If the other apllications don't
use them, there is no problem to be double-width for only w3m.
# BTW, the development version of w3m which supports UTF-8 treats
# as double-width characters for display with CJK charsets and as
# normal-width characters for display with UTF-8.
# I am satisfied this behavior for xterm-152-27 by Robert Brady.
On the other hand, some symbols (e.g. circle, triangle, star, and so on)
should be double-width characters in Japanese locale, because Japanese
use them with double-width glyphs for a long time. The normal-width
glyphs are not suitable for Japanese document.
May I ask a question? Did people who used ISO-8859 use these symbols
in plain text? I think new comers should respect old users.
Thank you,
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Hironori Sakamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/
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