On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:02:45 +0200 Khaled Hosny via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:17:19PM +0000, Richard Wordingham via > Unicode wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:46:48 +0100 > > Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > No. How many cells do CJK ideographs occupy? We've had a strong > > hint that a medial BEH should occupy one cell, while an isolated > > BEH should occupy two. > > Monospaced Arabic fonts (there are not that many of them) are designed > so that all forms occupy just one cell (most even including the > mandatory lam-alef ligatures), unlike CJK fonts. > > I can imagine the terminal restricting itself to monspaced fonts, > disable “liga” feature just in case, and expect the font to well > behave. Any other magic is likely to fail. Of course, strictly speaking, a monospaced font cannot support harakat as Egmont has proposed. Richard.
