Re: Doublewidth Cyrillic for unhappy Japanese people

[Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Martin Norbäck <d95mback@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I think this is a simple issue of counting the vertical lines in the
> glyph.

I think that's to coarse.  There might be some cases in which existing
monospace fonts treat characters as single-width because systems with
9x16 or 8x8 glyph cells are much more commonly used than 6x13 cells.
In such cases, compatibility should be preserved.

> The latin ligatures should be double witdh as well, but who uses them in
> plain text?

I guess people who play with Unicode to upset other people. ;-)

> As for the EM DASH, typhographically it should perhaps be double width,
> but we aren't dealing with typography. As long as it's readable, I would
> rather see as few double width characters as possible.

I think it has to be double-width in order to see that it's not an EN
DASH.
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