Re: mk_wcwidth

[STARNER DAVID E <starner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:33 PM 6/23/02 -0400, seer26@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> then you would need a separate encoding range
> for the doublewidth cyrillic, because the very next paragraph
> could well be in russian.

But we don't have a separate encoding range, and we won't 
have a separate encoding range. The character width is not 
part of the normative properties of a Unicode character, and 
the informative properties of a Unicode character say that 
Cyrillic is sometimes double width. Plain text doesn't carry 
all the information needed to make beautiful documents; that's 
always been known. Since the plain text expectations differ, 
we're going to have to deal with single/double-width differences.


David Starner - starner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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