EAW is used in fixed-width settings to distinguish characters that should take up one space versus two. I would also prefer that all these be considered wide, since otherwise it causes format problems in these settigns. (unfortunately fixed-width appear to be largley ignored by unicode... 🙁)
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:54 PM, fantasai via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Why are the new emoji like U+1F600 Grinning Face EAW=Wide > when other dingbats like U+263A Smiling Face are EAW=Neutral? > This is making it difficult to have consistent formatting > across emoticons. Also, emoji aren't really CJK context only > now, are they. > > https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=1F600&B1=Show > https://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=263A&B1=Show > > ~fantasai >
