Re: [dev] [st] double-width usage

From: Random832 <random832_AT_fastmail.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:42:38 -0400

On 04/23/2013 03:07 AM, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Hello comrades,
>
> Here’s some RFC for people using double‐width characters in terminals in
> their daily life.
>
> Which applications do you use that handle double-width as you expect them?
>
> Do these applications use the double-width for the layout?
>
> Any Chinese or Japanese user?
>
> If double-width characters would be drawn to fit the standard cell size of the
> terminal (drawing them in half the font size) would this suffice your need?
>
> This question implies that it is possible to simply increase the
> average fontsize so the complex glyphs look good. Would this suffice
> your need?
>
>
> Naming the applications would be important so I can test st to their
> compatibility.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>
Did you see the st.c I posted a few days ago? The logic for double width
is mostly complete in it - I just have to fix a few graphical glitches,
and there are a couple of corner cases (mainly regarding erasing a
double width character by overwriting with a single width when
background colors are involved) that different terminals don't handle
the same way, that it's not clear which terminal we should follow or if
it's even important to emulate one particular behavior.
Received on Tue Apr 23 2013 - 13:42:38 CEST