On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Which applications do you use that handle double-width as you expect them?
I use mutt and vim which handle double-width characters the way I expect them to (using urxvt or lxterm). > Do these applications use the double-width for the layout? Yes, I think they do. > Any Chinese or Japanese user? I use Japanese regularly (Japanese Studies major; I am not Japanese though). Writing Japanese in Vim is not as easy as I would like it to be so I usually go for a non-modal editor for that use case. > If double-width characters would be drawn to fit the standard cell size of the > terminal (drawing them in half the font size) would this suffice your need? I think the characters would be squished to an unreadable degree, but I think I have never seen it done in practice. > This question implies that it is possible to simply increase the > average fontsize so the complex glyphs look good. Would this suffice > your need? That would entail that everyone uses a certain (bigger) minimal font size if they want to be able to read width characters, no? Thank you for looking at this! I tried to hack wide-character support into st myself because when that is done, I will use it as my only terminal emulator. Cheers, Silvan
