My favourite font for Unicode work (APL385 Unicode) does not handle CJK chars well. Chinese glyphs are less than twice as wide. At 128 pt the ratio 5:3 looks exact. A quick glance at Courier, Courier New, Andale Mono, Menlo and Monaco all show the same ratio. (In fact I can't see any difference in the Chinese glyphs: I suspect many of these traditional fonts have simply extended their range by crudely ripping off each others' glyphs.)
On the other hand the ratio is indeed 2:1 for MS Mincho and PCMyungjo (though the last named doesn't handle French accented characters correctly!) 2:1 ratio is easy to handle. 5:3 isn't. I don't really want to have to inspect the name of the session font! :-) On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:52 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > Usually a chinese character occupies twice the width of an ascii > character in fixed width fonts. You may add some logic to test for > a CJK characters (range 4E00–9FFF and 3400–4DBF) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs > > to estimate the width if they all were ascii. > > Втр, 16 Окт 2012, Ian Clark писал(а): >> Has anyone else felt the need to display a boxed noun which contains >> Unicode glyphs? >> >> Such as: >> < u: 9017 32 9054 >> You'll know that the box structure breaks up, because J wants to treat >> '⌹' as 3 letters, whereas it only takes up one glyph on the screen. >> >> Check out my new (beta) Addon: format/sbox, which lets you input (say): >> require 'format/sbox' >> sbox < u: 9017 32 9054 >> for a corrected display. >> >> Read the write-up at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/format/sbox >> >> A Lab gets installed with the Addon: >> Category: Format >> Lab: Displaying boxed nouns containing Unicode glyphs >> >> There's also a test/demo script: >> load 'format/sbox/test' >> >> IanClark >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
