On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:04:32AM +0800, Abel Cheung wrote:
> >not all we like, but can you come up with things that should
> >legitimately be wide (i.e. ideographs) which have no chance to enter
> >Unicode?
> 
> Certain there are, say some belonging to Taiwan CNS11643, which
> is regarded as variation of existing character in Unicode. And there

If they're needed for round trip compatibility with a legacy charset,
it should be possible to encode them in one of the CJK compatibility
sections. Are there still characters missing?

> are other symbols and characters not accepted in unicode, not
> necessarily wide. Though I must admit usage of those would certainly
> be quite rare.

If they're not wide then the default wcwidth of 1 is ok, no?

~Rich

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