Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people

[yaoz]

> From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > Should the width of a character be obtained from the font information?
> 
> Only in situations where you also want to support proportional fonts.
> The classical tty model does not provide a communication mechanism for
> that sort of information. The goal of the exercise here it to keep the
> classical tty model alive. I don't think we want to add ESC sequences to
> query the width semantics of the terminal.

If it is possible to add ESC sequences to query the terminal for width
of a character, the 'telnet to another machine' problem can also be
solved.  This way it is much more flexible than a few width functions.  All
applications running within a terminal will rely on the terminal to
provide width info.  The terminal can decide to get the width from a few
functions or from the font.

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