half- and full-width CJK characters

Dr Bean drbean@freeshell.org
Sat Oct 7 08:23:23 GMT 2023


I am memorializing this for my own benefit here.

Benefitting from https://eng-blog.iij.ad.jp/archives/12576
I see that I don't need to change any envars, but only fonts.

The default Lucida Console font renders CJK as half-width chars, on 
this PC with 3 Windows language packs.

With MS ゴシック, Japanese かな and 漢字 look good.
Traditional Chinese ㄅㄛˋㄆㄛˋㄇㄛˋand 漢字 look good.
Korean 한글 doesn't look good. It looks like they're
half-width characters drawn with the space for one full-width 
character.

I wonder if this is a problem with the Korean language pack.

-- 
Greg Matheson                 Teacher: a spooky-action-at-a-distance
http://drbean.sdf.org         device for turning knowledge into
drbean@freeshell.org          learning


More information about the Cygwin mailing list