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.
This is Windows! (in the voice of “this is Sparta!”)
The problem is not only with Windows :)
But if a problem exists, it sure exists in Windows :-)
Hahaha! This is awesome! :) I’m gonna use this on a daily basis from now on :)
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