[dev] Re: [st] line drawing?

From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:34:02 +0100

"Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <k0ga_AT_shike2.com> writes:

>> If I switch to Liberation Mono it works. This is a pretty serious
>> regression, since I used to be able to use whatever font I wanted
>> without issue.
>
> It is a problem related to the switch to Xft. It impossible a font
> has all the unicode glyphs, so if the font fails in a glyph you have a
> problem. It is not clear for us how other terminals fix this problem, but
> maybe we should add this issue to the TODO list.

urxvt has a list of fonts and tries to find the glyph in any of them.
This will perhaps look ugly, but at least display something similar.

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen_AT_gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
Received on Wed Nov 07 2012 - 14:34:02 CET

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