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Subject: Re: enforcing double-width CJK character display
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> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:40:05 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
> 
> within, say, konsole 2.6.4 (from KDE 4.6.5), the character width of
> double-width CJK characters is forced to be exactly twice the width of
> the used console font, as expected.  Is there a similar option to
> emacs?  For example, my main Emacs font is `DejaVu Sans Mono', and the
> font selected for Japanese is `Sazanami Mincho', and the latter's
> character width is smaller...

Does "C-x =" tell you that Emacs counts each Japanese character as 2
columns?  If it does, then the issue is with selecting a better font,
is that right?