On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote: > [regarding monospaced text] > Or, for example collision detection, which is part > of mouse text selection algorithm is much simpler, etc. > These are IMO main reasons why it still often used.
I work extensively with MUDs, where traditionally ASCII text is monospaced. It's normal to create alignment with spaces, and for tabs to represent eight-space positions (so "abc\td" will take up nine slots of width). But in the world of Unicode, it's not that simple. Some text runs right-to-left, some characters have different widths assigned, some have no width at all. My program has to cope with all of these, including when you use the mouse to select text. Monospacing is not about making it easier for the program; it's about keeping things the way the human expects. I do not ever want my MUDs or my shells to run with classic "proportionally-spaced" fonts, but I do want them to be able to cope with RTL text etc. And they can. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
