Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote:
> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 12:05:45 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote:
> >
> > > On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 9:29:16 AM UTC+9, mattn wrote:
> > > > On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 6:17:42 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > > Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi, list.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to merge this patch that is merged on macvim.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/commit/dd3bc8209b200eef75808947a29ebd260c79389a
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Below is a patch for vim.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://gist.github.com/mattn/f13f4ecaab63018b47fd
> > > > > >
> > > > > > How do you think?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks. Maybe we should only support happy faces.
> > > >
> > > > Well, I'm thinking we should support all of emoji as double width
> > > > because unicode.org recommend the emoji to have square aspect ratio.
> > > >
> > > > > Current practice is for emoji to have a square aspect ratio, deriving
> > > > > from their origin in Japanese. For interoperability, it is
> > > > > recommended that this practice be continued with current and future
> > > > > emoji.
> > > >
> > > > http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/
> > > >
> > > > > You will also need to update runtime/tools/unicode.vim
> > > >
> > > > Okay, I'll update in later.
> > > >
> > > > - mattn
> > >
> > > Updated patch.
> > >
> > > https://gist.github.com/mattn/793829abeb82ae9046b7
> > >
> > > This is based emoji-data.txt from unicode 1.0 to unicode 6.0. Because
> > > most of fonts still not have glyphs.
> > >
> > > If you don't want to include all of emoji absolutely, the smiley's range
> > > should be 0x1f600, 0x1f637.
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticons_(Unicode_block)
> > >
> > > However possibly I hope my patch will be merged.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is the right solution. Although these characters
> > look better when wide, it depends on the mono-spaced font what the
> > actual display width is. The generation of the doublewidth table should
> > take care of that.
>
> AFAIK, emoji should be double width. And unicode.org recommend square
> aspect ratio. As the evidence, MacVim merged this patch.
>
> https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/commit/dd3bc8209b200eef75808947a29ebd260c79389a
>
> There are a lot of multi-byte users trouble in this issue, and they
> has been given up. So if you worry about, I want to add new option
> 'emoji' to switch this feature. How do you think?
No, I don't want an option.
If we are doing to assume that emoji are double width then we better
make sure that other programs, such as xterm, do the same.
I hope that Unicode recommendation will be taken as the characters being
double width. I suppose we can include the patch and wait for someone
to complain.
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