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Re: 23.0.60; wrong glyph widths of some Unicode codepoints
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David Hansen |
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Re: 23.0.60; wrong glyph widths of some Unicode codepoints |
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Fri, 23 May 2008 10:57:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Not that it solves any Emacs devel related problems but maybe the this
specific usage problem...
On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:55:53 +0900 Kenichi Handa wrote:
> Ah! "dejavu sans mono" and "bitstream vera sans mono"
> happen to have the same metrics.
For the "common" characters they are the same. The DejaVu fonts are
just the Bitstream fonts plus additional glyphs.
> BTW, if you know that you want "dejavu sans mono" for them,
> how about using it as the fallback font as this:
Or use only the DejaVu fonts.
BTW Kenichi: Do you know urxvt aka rxvt-unicode? It's a terminal
emulator for X that claims to have good unicode support. IMHO (not that
I'm in any way qualified ;) it's doing a very good job in picking the
right fonts. It supports xft as well as old school X fonts.
David