Re: Bad drawing of xft fonts overlapping box cursor

[Jason Rumney]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:47:13 +0100 address@hidden (Johan 
Bockgård) wrote:
> In some fonts certain characters can produce overlaps with the box
> cursor.  This leads to uglily drawn characters.
>   

When investigating whether the new font backend had made a particular 
cursor display bug on Windows disappear a few months back, I noticed 
that the old font code is still used for drawing box cursors. As far as 
I could tell, that was the case on all platforms. I didn't get a 
response to the mail where I mentioned it, so I don't know whether it is 
an oversight or a known TODO, and whether it has since been fixed. It 
might be worth setting a breakpoint in the box cursor drawing code in 
xterm.c and see if it is hit, and how it ends up drawing the text.