Gedit and Chinese text

From: Tony Nelson (tonynelson_at_georgeanelson.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    I know nothing about Chinese, but some of you do. I'm writing a Gedit
    plugin using Unicode. My plugin wraps text for block comments in programs,
    and it assumes a fixed-width font, such as Monospace. Reading about
    Unicode, I see that in a "fixed-width" font that some characters are
    double-wide, and I'm wondering if I need to handle that in Gedit.

    I installed ttfonts-zh_CN in an attempt to see what happens with Chinese
    characters in Gedit, but I'm not sure what I learned. I think that AR PL
    Kait6iM GB is monospaced, but 7 random (double-width) chinese characters
    take up 13 western characters, not 14. They also do so in other fonts I
    tried (most seemed to substitute AR PL SungtiL GB for the Chinese
    characters).

    Is this double-width thing real, or am I confused?

    Does Gedit do it, say, if a real Chinese language installation is done?

    Does it make any sense to try to handle Chinese characters? Do
    word-wrapping and Chinse go together in, say, C programming source code
    comments?

    If they do go together, uhh, what constitutes word breaks? Those odd
    Unicode spaces? Any double-wide character boundary? (Not followed by
    punctuation?)
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