Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

[hsaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Hironori Sakamoto)]

> From: Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Do you care about the doublewidth Cyrillic, or is it just the punctuation
> and graphics and so forth?  Could you make a list of the characters you
> care about being doublewidth?

For natural display, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin (except FULLWIDTH variant)
should be normal-width characters. However, they should be doublewidth
characters for compatibility of EUC-JP and Shift-JIS.

* locale = ja_JP.eucJP or ja_JP.SJIS (on your xterm-152-27)
  Every characters in JISX0208/0212/0213 are doublewidth characters.
  # Note: EastAsiaWidth.txt has bug because it does not care about
  #       JISX0208/0212/0213, it supports only CP932 ;-(
* locale = ja_JP.UTF-8
  Kanji, katakana, hiragana, and symbols are doublewidth characters.
  Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin are normal-width characters.

This is my opinion. The other Japanese may have other opinions.

Thank you,
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Hironori SAKAMOTO <hsaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~hsaka/
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