Ambiguous quotation marks are generally resolved to wide, when they enclose and are adjacent to a wide character, and to narrow otherwise. 5 Conformance East Asian Width is an informative character property and implies no conformance requirements. When processing or displaying data Wide characters behave like ideographs in important ways, such as layout. In fixed pitched fonts, they take up one Em of space. Half-width characters behave like ideographs in some ways.
Narrow characters behave like Western characters.
For example, in line breaking. The classifications presented here are based on the most widely used mixed-width legacy character sets in use in East Asia as of this writing. In particular, the assignments of the neutral or ambiguous categories depend on the contents of these character sets. Or such a reduction could be done implicitly at runtime in the context of interoperating with Shift-JIS fonts or data sources. Conversely, if additional character sets are created and widely adopted for legacy purposes, more characters would need to be classified as ambiguous.