On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, June Kim wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:58 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, June Kim wrote: > >> 2. Complex but generic (using font width data) > > > > It could be more complicated, Indic family (and also Korean?) uses > > glyph composition so that a sequence of characters occupies variable > > horizontal and vertical space. > > > > Korean(which is my mother tongue) character sizes don't vary according > to compositions as long as you use fixed-width font -- any single > korean character fits into the fixed-size box in a fixed-width font. > > I don't know about "Indic family".
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