On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:29 am, Random832 wrote: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017, at 01:37, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> In a *well-designed* *bug-free* monospaced font, all code points should >> be either zero-width or one column wide. Or two columns, if the font >> supports East Asian fullwidth characters. > > What about Emoji? > U+1F469 WOMAN is two columns wide on its own. > U+1F4BB PERSONAL COMPUTER is two columns wide on its own. > U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER is zero columns wide on its own.
What about them? In a monospaced font, they should follow the same rules I used above: either 0, 1 or 2 column wide. If any visible code point is a fraction of a column wide, it isn't usable as a monospaced font. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
