Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote on 2002-02-04 01:41 UTC: > How about the current status of Markus' SCW (Set Character Width) > proposal? I think it is time to start the discussion. > > Markus' SCW proposal: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/scw-proposal.html
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. 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/
