Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: supporting XIM
> Date: 30 Mar 2003 17:02:58 -0800
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> > Perhaps not double-width, but there are plenty of non-ASCII,
> > non-ISO-8859-1 characters in the Unicode set that should be
> > interesting to U.S. programmers.
>
> This is a good information. I hope such people will hard-code
> UTF-8 support up to two bytes.
Remember, though, that some of these characters are well beyond the
2-byte UTF-8 range. Consider the Euro symbol and all the math
symbols, for example.
> Though I didn't find such softwares,
> I heard there are such softwares. We have to continue keeping watch
> on i18n implement of softwares....
>
> How about "em-dash" or ligatures such as "fi" or "ffl"? Are they
> doublewidth?
>
No. They are not used at all in typewriter-like text.
-hpa
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