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Subject: Re: Actual width of unicode chracters.
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:24:14 +0100
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On 13/06/12 03:23, Young wrote:
>    I am trying to write a class that draws tables in console mode. Korean
> character takes two space width for one character. When I count length of
> a string having numbers and Korean Characters together, I cannot get
> correct width. In result, I cannot align vertical line right.

Can you build something from files here?:

<http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/>

...especially EastAsianWidth.txt and its associated documentation?:

<http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/>

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