On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 08:13:54AM -0400, Simon McVittie wrote: > Monospace environments like terminals traditionally display æ, œ, … as > a single character-cell: it isn't typographically correct, but neither > is having m the same width as i, and we tolerate that in monospace. > > The one use I'm aware of for characters that occupy more than one cell > in monospace is that CJK writing systems have the concept of "fullwidth" > character forms. which take up 2 adjacent cells. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms> > > For instance, if you read this mail in monospace, these lines should > line up exactly, even though in a proportional font they'd be very > different lengths: > > |Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ| > |halfwidthhalfwidth| > |朅—∴mw朅—∴mw朅—| > |iiiiiiiillllllllll| > > (It works as described in gnome-terminal, xterm and gvim, but not in > gedit, where the full-width letters are about 1.5 character cells.)
Ok, thanks for the information. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
