On 8 July 2013 22:38, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 08/07/2013 21:56, Dave Angel wrote: >> Characters do not have a width. >> [snip] >> It depends what you mean by "width"! :-) >> Try this (Python 3): >>>>> print("A\N{FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A}") > AA Serious question: How would one find the width of a character by that definition?