I also think it is really only your terminal and fonts that have a say at how wide characters are handled (as well as Xresources if you run GNU/Linux). If you a

I also think it is really only your terminal and fonts that have a say at how wide characters are handled (as well as Xresources if you run GNU/Linux). If you are on Linux a modern terminal emulator with great capabilities is kovidgoyal/kitty at Github.