Re: Monospaced and Higher Unicode Characters

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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00

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"James A. Schulz" <jaschulz@wiseware.com> writes:

> I am assuming that "M" is the same width as all the other characters in the
> "Monospaced" font, otherwise what does "Monospaced" mean?

That all characters occupy the same area - but this means the
character width _plus padding_ is constant. And the em value is based
on use of [a-zA-Z] plus possibly the special characters: Unicode may
have several characters that the "em" standard doesn't take into
account.

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