Display Width

Asian characters are traditionally written to fit within a square. Characters that fill a square cell are full-width characters. Characters that fill half the space are half-width characters. The Unicode standard uses the width property to map characters between the Unicode standard and existing Asian character sets.

The Display Width table shows:

• The local character value
• The glyph
• The width of the character. Halfwidth is coded as 1. Fullwidth is coded as 2.

Searching for a Character's Display Width

You can search for an existing display width definition:

1. Click Search. The Table Search dialog box will appear.
2. Enter the local character value, the glyph, or the width code in the appropriate field of the Table Search dialog box.
3. Click Go.

If you search for a local character value or a glyph, then the row will appear in the stationary dialog box. If you search for a width code, then the first occurrence of the width code will be highlighted. It will not appear in the stationary dialog box unless it is the only occurrence of that width code in the character set.

Adding, Modifying, and Deleting Information

You can add display width specifications to the character set:

1. Click New.
2. Specify the local character value, the glyph, and the display width code in the appropriate fields of the stationary dialog box.
3. Click Add.

You can modify existing information:

1. Click the row that you want to modify. It will appear in the stationary dialog box.
2. Make the desired changes.
3. Click Modify.

You can delete a row:

1. Click the row that you want to delete. It will appear in the stationary dialog box.
2. Click Delete.

To save information that you have changed or added, see Defining a New Character Set.