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UAX 11 East Asian Width property of Emoji should be Wide

Dear all,

Most of emojis have Neutral value as their East Asian Width properties at present. But I suggest they should be Wide or Ambiguous, because these emojis come from Japanese legacy proprietary character sets, and thus an emoji's frame is commonly square-shaped, as well as as CJKV Ideographs.

East Asian Width property affects rendering on terminal emulators. An emoji is as wide as a fullwidth character in most fonts but is treated as a halfwidth character in some environments, so that it can be rendered overlapped with another character.

Thanks, Ryusei YAMAGUCHI

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