On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:15:04PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:09:16PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > I nevertheless maintain that if the requested glyph /isn't/ available,
| > it is more useful to display some approximation of the requested
| > ch
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:35:06PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
| Okay, I see your problem now, the terminal emulator _may_ replace the
| presented chars with equivalents in the font. But it's hell of work if
| done right, it has to check every char, locate most similar character
| in some encodings
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:37:43PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
| > That may be so, but gnome-terminal /does/ cope with this situation by
| > displaying replacing the hyphen with a minus sign when the font doesn't
|
| Then gnome-terminal is broken and deservers a bug report.
I disagree. gnome-ter
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:03:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
| > Many TrueType fonts don't have both a hyphen (0x2010) and a minus sign
| > (0x2212); however, groff (and thus man pages) differentiates between the
| > two in UTF-8 locales. This results in lots of man pages displaying ugly
| > box
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:49:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| > If the default Unicode fonts are incomplete enough that they lack this
| > character, then that is probably worthy of a bug (and this one could just
| > be reassigned),
The default bitmap fonts that come with XFree are fine for
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4
Severity: normal
With certain fonts and font sizes in Xft mode, xterm draws characters so
that they partially lie in the character cell below; these characters
are subsequently not erased properly, leading to an unsightly display.
This is particularly noticeab
Package: xterm
Version: 4.3.0-0pre1v4
Many TrueType fonts don't have both a hyphen (0x2010) and a minus sign
(0x2212); however, groff (and thus man pages) differentiates between the
two in UTF-8 locales. This results in lots of man pages displaying ugly
boxes where hyphens should be in a uxterm,
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