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; * etc/NEWS: Announce 'cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide' (bug#64420).

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@ -156,6 +156,25 @@ whereas if the mouse pointer is in the left half of a glyph, point
will be put in front the buffer position corresponding to that glyph.
By default this is disabled.
** Internationalization
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*** Users in CJK locales can control width of some non-CJK characters.
Some characters are considered by Unicode as "ambiguous" with respect
to their display width: either "full-width" (i.e. taking 2 columns on
display) or "narrow" (taking 1 column). The actual width depends on
the fonts used for these characters by Emacs or (for text-mode frames)
by the terminal emulator. Traditionally, font sets in CJK locales
were set up so as to display these characters as full-width, and thus
Emacs modified the char-width table in those locales to follow suit.
Lately, the tendency is to display these characters as narrow. The
new user option 'cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide' allows users to control
whether Emacs considers these characters as full-width (the default)
or narrow (if the variable is customized to the nil value).
This setting affects the results of 'string-width' and similar
functions in CJK locales.
* Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 30.1