Re: enforcing double-width CJK character display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:13:40 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > There is no easy way with the new display engine.
> 
> This is bad news, since I consider this as a quite important feature.

I would appreciate if we could have some details about why "there is
no easy way with the new display engine" to accomplish this.  What
prevents this, exactly?