I don’t deal with Unicode and other character encoding on the daily basis, but when I do, I need every piece of information that has been written on the subject. Hence the link to this interesting issue :
As long as you stick to precomposed Unicode characters, and Western scripts, things are relatively straightforward. Whether it’s A or Å, S or Š – so long as there are no combining marks, you can count a single Unicode code point as one character width. So the following works:
aeioucsz áéíóúčšžNice and neat, right?
Unfortunately, problems appear with Asian characters. When displayed in monospace, many Asian characters occupy two character widths.