On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 04:39:47PM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller schrieb: > >> The "W" solution, BTW, implies that people are using a roman alphabetic >> script. I'm not sure a Japanese Hiragana or a Hebrew char are in fact >> not wider than a "W". > > Although I surrendered before, this is one of the best arguments I've > heard for a long time - and it is even true ;-) .
/me was under the impression that Hebrew characters are pretty quadratic and Hiragana is sort of "fixed width" as well. But anyway, hardcoding looked strange indeed ;-) Andre'