de-facto standards on character width which Unicode should respect

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:36:52 +0200,
Stefan Baums <sbaums@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> What about Indian scripts?  In Devanagari typesetting, one akshara
> (consonant [+ vowel [+ anusvara / visarga]] cluster) takes up roughly
> as much horizontal space as two latin-script letters, is certainly
> square in shape, and the space is needed for all the details of the
> akshara.  A Devanagari font that is supposed to be used with a 9x18
> latin one should probably be 18x18.

You may be right, I don't know about Indian scripts well.  However,
this is design problem.  I don't know Indian people need this from
the point of view of backward compatibility to their own softwares.

If Indian people have (de-facto) standard how to use Indian scripts
on computers, I am completely wrong.  Any examples?  (I may be wrong
because Mule/Emacs can handle doublewidth and triplewidth non-CJK
characters.)

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