Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20220917152906.uhdto%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Ralph Corderoy wrote in | <20220917105400.a3f1121...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>: ||> ` U+0060, GRAVE ACCENT, "backtick" ||> ||> is displayed as ||> ||> ‘ U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ||> ||> which in Liberation Mono (at least!) this reverses the direction of ||> the tick. || ||This shows the problem. || || pango-view --backend ft2 --header --font 'Liberation Mono' \ || --dpi 96 --hinting none \ || -t "$(troff -Tutf8 <<<'`'\'' \`\'\'' \(aq' | grotty)" ... ||The font's designers have chosen to make the 6 and 9 quotes both lean to ||the right and, as is common today, to have very slight bulges so they ||are similar in appearance.
..just to add that Liberation seems to be a free font used as a default in LibreOffice, which i did not know until just now, searching for a different monospace font. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
