Re: Should U+3248 ... U+324F be wide characters?

From: Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:04:11 -0700
On 8/16/2017 6:26 AM, Mike FABIAN via Unicode wrote:
EastAsianWidth.txt contains:

3248..324F;A     # No     [8] CIRCLED NUMBER TEN ON BLACK SQUARE..CIRCLED NUMBER EIGHTY ON BLACK SQUARE

i.e. it classifies the width of the characters at codepoints
between 3248 and 324F as ambiguous.

Is this really correct? Shouldn’t they be “W”, i.e. wide?

In most fonts these characters seem to be square shaped wide characters.

"W" not only implies display width, but also a different treatment in the context of line breaking and vertical layout of text.

"W" characters behave more like Ideographs, for the most part, while "N" are treated as forming words (for the most part).

"A" means, you get to decide whether to treat these as "W" or "N" based on context. If used in a non ideographic context, they behave like all other symbols (but happen to fill an EM square).

A./

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