Hi,
At Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:20:55 +0100 (BST),
Robert de Bath <[email protected]> wrote:
> But the recent discussions have given me a question:
> "Why do we want plaintext to use a Bi-Width font?"
It is a de-facto standard that CJK characters (except for
JIS X 0201 characters) are doublewidth. This de-facto
standard lives more than 20 years since 8bit computer age.
Ignoring this standard would bring a confusion.
Since XTerm did not support CJK languages until recently,
it was OK that XTerm didn't support doublewidth. However,
to support CJK languages, doublewidth support is mandatory.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N"
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/
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