On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2018 14:01:54 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> > wrote: >> > On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett >> >> <ghesk...@shentel.net> >> > >> > wrote: >> >> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee <jle...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> >> >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in >> >> >> >> 2018 can stick their head in the sand and take seriously the >> >> >> >> position that Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text >> >> >> >> strings. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is >> >> >> > not intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of >> >> >> > some sort to turn on/off all I18N features. >> >> >> >> >> >> Earlier I cited an example of round-tripping from human to human >> >> >> via various web protocols. Here's an actual example of a Twitch >> >> >> stream title: >> >> >> >> >> >> π±γ Stardew Valley Fanart γπ±*:ο½₯οΎβ§γ 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE >> >> >> γ#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy >> >> > >> >> > Ok, I'll bite. What font would be used to properly display the >> >> > above? >> >> >> >> Not sure, but the default fonts in my web browser, text editor, and >> >> terminal all have no problems with it. I'm on Debian Linux running >> >> Xfce, fwiw. Haven't had any issues anywhere. >> >> >> >> ChrisA >> > >> > Whereas I am on wheezy, 32 bit pae, using TDE as a desktop, with >> > kmail-1.9-10-enterprise, using a 14 point unifont for the message >> > body display. >> > >> > Its a nice clear, very readable font for these elderly eyes. I just >> > tried several of the more std fonts w/o affecting the display of the >> > rectangles you see above. Hence the question and thread noise. >> > Apparently, and despite being set for utf-8, I don't have a font >> > capable of displaying this string in its entirety as I've just tried >> > a couple dozen more. >> > >> > Thanks ChrisA. >> >> Oh! I just remembered. Try installing (through apt-get or equivalent) >> the "unifont" package. It'll drag in a few fonts designed to provide >> good coverage of all of Unicode, making them available as fallback >> fonts. That way, when you use a font that doesn't have all the >> characters, it'll use that for the bulk of the text, but instead of >> the rectangles that you're seeing, you'll get the correct glyphs. >> >> ChrisA > > Checking now ChrisA, and I already have installed: > unifont > unifont.bin > xfonts-unifont > ttf-unifont > > all version 1:5.1.200809-14-1.3 > > Is there another package to make it complete? > > I did select and install a couple that might have some connection. But I > am still seeing the same rectangles. Obviously my guesses weren't > SWAG's.
Hmm, now I'm not sure. I do know that, back when I was messing with Thai and Chinese subtitles, I spent a LONG time messing around, because inevitably, whichever font I picked, one or the other of them, or the English subs, would look ugly. Dig around with fonts, install a bunch of them; worst case, they just take up space on your disk. Sorry I can't be more help. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
