Re: What characters have baseline?

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 11:02:40 EDT

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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:18:20PM +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Hmmm. I think I can rephrase my question, then: how do I know what
> characters are fullwidth characters? Can I assume that all hanzi,
> kana, yi, fullwidth latin, and hangul characters are fullwidth? Are
> there any others?

See Unicode Standard Annex #11, "East Asian Width". Basically, any
alphabetic character has been used in an east Asian standard, and hence
there will be some user out there who expects it as a full width
character.

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