Re: What is a preferred charset?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:40:42 -0500
> 
> And IIUC the only impact it has is on the choice of font to display it.
> For latin chars, this tends to make no difference, but for some Asian
> scripts it can make a much more significant difference because the same
> Unicode chars are used for different languages even though they are
> traditionally rendered differently in those different languages.

It can also have effect on Latin characters in Far Eastern locales,
because the default font might display them as double-width or
something.

> IOW, I think this `charset` property is used to solve the problems
> descried at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification

Not only.  Some scripts need special support from the font, and AFAIR
this property also helps with that.