Re: GNU Emacs Unicode support

[Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx>]

Otfried Cheong writes:

> Second, I find the behaviour of "wcwidth" for the conjoining Johab
> range irrational.  It doesn't make any sense to make the leading
> consonant full-width, with vowels and finals being half-width. I don't
> want to have to split my glyphs over two fonts to see the Johab
> elements on software that doesn't support conjoining.  (On a
> conjoining renderer the result of conjoining should of course be
> full-width.)

What do you mean by "conjoining Johab range"?

I was under the impression that when decomposing a Hangul syllable,
the result were a consonant, vowel and final, all three in the range
U+3131..U+318E - which are marked as "wide" in EastAsianWidth.txt.
Is it not true?

Bruno
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