Koji, In my opinion, I wouldn't worry too much about the EAW=A property value, mainly because it seems that U+2022 and U+2027 have been used for this Traditional Chinese punctuation for many years, and nothing has exploded yet. ;-)
Regards... --- Ken > On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Koji Ishii <kojii...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Ken Lunde <lu...@adobe.com> wrote: >> Koji, >> >> For this issue, and for similar characters, what Traditional Chinese IMEs >> emit, in terms of Unicode values, and how Traditional Chinese fonts encode >> the corresponding glyphs, are much more important factors than UAX #11 (East >> Asian Width) property values. >> >> For Traditional Chinese, the target character is clearly Big Five 0xA145, >> and this seems to correspond to U+2022 or U+2027, depending on the OS. > > Understood, actually that matches to what I guessed (and feared ;). > The challenge would be on the layout engine side to handle EAW=A > correctly. It's not only for this code point, so we might need a good > solution for EAW=A someday, but just wanted to head up that it's > likely to cause some layout problems on most platforms today. > > /koji
