Re: [O] Boxquote for code in UTF-8 export

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hello,

Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Sebastien Vauban writes:
>
>> I'd advice to use UTF-8 characters more wildly available in the
>> different fonts for drawing the Boxquote around code, in function
>> `org-ascii--box-string'.
>>
>> The results is that only \u250C and \u2514 are "universal" (except in
>> Lucida Sans Typewriter which implements almost nothing -- unlike
>> DejaVu Sans Mono which implements almost everything).
>
> There are three characters required. You are only suggesting two.

Yes.

> What should be the third?

The third is present in (almost?) all fonts. No problem with it.

> Anyhow, do you want to provide a patch?

Here it is.

Best regards,
  Seb

* ox-ascii.el (org-ascii--box-string): Choose more universal Unicode
characters for boxquote corners.

---
 lisp/ox-ascii.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ox-ascii.el b/lisp/ox-ascii.el
index 6f2b43a..6316e59 100644
--- a/lisp/ox-ascii.el
+++ b/lisp/ox-ascii.el
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ Empty lines are not indented."
   "Return string S with a partial box to its left.
 INFO is a plist used as a communication channel."
   (let ((utf8p (eq (plist-get info :ascii-charset) 'utf-8)))
-    (format (if utf8p "╭────\n%s\n╰────" ",----\n%s\n`----")
+    (format (if utf8p "┌────\n%s\n└────" ",----\n%s\n`----")
            (replace-regexp-in-string
             "^" (if utf8p "│ " "| ")
             ;; Remove last newline character.
-- 
2.1.1