Hi David, On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 05:47, David Demelier <mark...@malikania.fr> wrote: > Le 24/09/2018 à 08:19, AR Garbe a écrit : > > On 23 September 2018 at 11:56, Eric Pruitt <eric.pru...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 09:14:11AM -0700, AR Garbe wrote: > >>> I totally agree. I'd be in favour in a st just using plain X fonts. > >>> This emoji unicode porn and anti-aliasing TTF support doesn't make > >>> sense to me. > >> > >> It's not just about Emoji or anti-aliasing. If you work with languages > >> that use non-Latin characters, support for fallback fonts is a must. > > > > Well, are you using st with glyphs that require fallback fonts? > > I wonder if at suckless we should aim for the general purpose.
> Unfortunately, I remember having terminus not rendering some kind of > unicode characters not even emojis. I think it was some drawing characters. > > Many tools like to use those characters (just even tree). Are you referring to curses border characters? They shouldn't be a problem at all with plain old xfonts. > Also, I'm not sure if many bitmap fonts render correctly on 4k screens. > I just love how Fira Mono renders on mine. But I should test some. To me xfonts (like terminus) look way more crisp on such monitors (with say size 24px or something similar depending on resolution) than those heavily AA TTF freetype fonts. But a matter of taste I presume. BR, Anselm
