--- xterm-224/fontutils.c.orig	2007-02-26 16:42:29.000000000 +0100
+++ xterm-224/fontutils.c	2007-02-26 16:56:27.793649610 +0100
@@ -588,59 +588,19 @@
 #endif
 
 #if OPT_WIDE_CHARS && OPT_RENDERFONT && defined(HAVE_TYPE_FCCHAR32)
-#define HALF_WIDTH_TEST_STRING "1234567890"
 
-/* '1234567890' in Chinese characters in UTF-8 */
-#define FULL_WIDTH_TEST_STRING "\xe4\xb8\x80\xe4\xba\x8c\xe4\xb8\x89" \
-                               "\xe5\x9b\x9b\xe4\xba\x94" \
-			       "\xef\xa7\x91\xe4\xb8\x83\xe5\x85\xab" \
-			       "\xe4\xb9\x9d\xef\xa6\xb2"
-
-/* '1234567890' in Korean script in UTF-8 */
-#define FULL_WIDTH_TEST_STRING2 "\xec\x9d\xbc\xec\x9d\xb4\xec\x82\xbc" \
-                                "\xec\x82\xac\xec\x98\xa4" \
-			        "\xec\x9c\xa1\xec\xb9\xa0\xed\x8c\x94" \
-			        "\xea\xb5\xac\xec\x98\x81"
-
-#define HALF_WIDTH_CHAR1  0x0031	/* '1' */
-#define HALF_WIDTH_CHAR2  0x0057	/* 'W' */
 #define FULL_WIDTH_CHAR1  0x4E00	/* CJK Ideograph 'number one' */
 #define FULL_WIDTH_CHAR2  0xAC00	/* Korean script syllable 'Ka' */
 
 static Bool
 is_double_width_font_xft(Display * dpy, XftFont * font)
 {
-    XGlyphInfo gi1, gi2;
-    FcChar32 c1 = HALF_WIDTH_CHAR1, c2 = HALF_WIDTH_CHAR2;
-    char *fwstr = FULL_WIDTH_TEST_STRING;
-    char *hwstr = HALF_WIDTH_TEST_STRING;
-
     /* Some Korean fonts don't have Chinese characters at all. */
-    if (!XftCharExists(dpy, font, FULL_WIDTH_CHAR1)) {
-	if (!XftCharExists(dpy, font, FULL_WIDTH_CHAR2))
-	    return False;	/* Not a CJK font */
-	else			/* a Korean font without CJK Ideographs */
-	    fwstr = FULL_WIDTH_TEST_STRING2;
-    }
-
-    XftTextExtents32(dpy, font, &c1, 1, &gi1);
-    XftTextExtents32(dpy, font, &c2, 1, &gi2);
-    if (gi1.xOff != gi2.xOff)	/* Not a fixed-width font */
-	return False;
-
-    XftTextExtentsUtf8(dpy, font, (FcChar8 *) hwstr, (int) strlen(hwstr), &gi1);
-    XftTextExtentsUtf8(dpy, font, (FcChar8 *) fwstr, (int) strlen(fwstr), &gi2);
-
-    /*
-     * fontconfig and Xft prior to 2.2(?) set the width of half-width
-     * characters identical to that of full-width character in CJK double-width
-     * (bi-width / monospace) font even though the former is half as wide as
-     * the latter.  This was fixed sometime before the release of fontconfig
-     * 2.2 in early 2003.  See
-     *  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196312
-     * In the meantime, we have to check both possibilities.
-     */
-    return ((2 * gi1.xOff == gi2.xOff) || (gi1.xOff == gi2.xOff));
+    if (XftCharExists(dpy, font, FULL_WIDTH_CHAR1) || 
+        XftCharExists(dpy, font, FULL_WIDTH_CHAR2))
+        return True;   /* CJK font */
+    else
+        return False;  /* Not a CJK font */
 }
 #else
 #define is_double_width_font_xft(dpy, xftfont) 0