Re: Unicode box-drawing chars

[Jesper Harder]

Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:

> For example: I use adobe-courier for latin characters and gnu-unifont
> for everything else. Due to this in the following examples the "║"s on
> the right side are not properly aligned.

FWIW, all your examples look perfect for me.  I use Lucida Typewriter
for latin chars and 

    -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-*--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO10646-1

for everything else.

> Why do I ask and what do I want? There are many places where the
> box-drawing chars could be useful in Emacs.

Yeah, I use them to make a nice summary buffer in Gnus, e.g.

    Kai Großjohann          command.com versus cmd.exe
    ├╮ Klaus Berndl            
    │╰─╮ Kai Großjohann          
    │  ├╮ Klaus Berndl            
    │  ╰─╮ lawrence mitchell       
    ╰─╮ Zhongtao Zhu