On 10 Oct 2006 22:50:21 -0700, Leo Kislov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If python ever provide this functionality it would be I guess > u"C\u0327".width() == 1. But it's not clear when unicode.org will > provide recommended fixed font character width information for *all* > characters. I recently stumbled upon Tamil language, where for example > u'\u0b95\u0bcd', u'\u0b95\u0bbe', u'\u0b95\u0bca', u'\u0b95\u0bcc' > looks like they have width 1,2,3 and 4 columns. To add insult to injury > these 4 symbols are all considered *single* letter symbols :) If your > email reader is able to show them, here they are in all their glory: > க், கா, கொ, கௌ.
Letters? Not as such. They are, however, single syllabic units; Tamil, like other Indic scripts, is an alphasyllabary. I believe the syllables or sounds thus encoded are k (with nothing after), kaa, ko, and kau. Seamonkey is being a jerk and not rendering the glyphs properly... :? -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
