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Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

> Yeah, that's definitely the case, and it's not just a problem with
> double-width characters -- the coverage of many iso10646 fonts seems
> completely crap.

You must have missed my rants on the topic (and Unicode fundamentalism
in general).  Emacs 22 tries to work around the problems with such
fonts.  presumably the proper solution would be to have low-volume
meta information available about the repertoires.