On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 01:51:26PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:01:42PM -0400, Gary Allen Vollink wrote:
> > 3) I'm not proud of this, but it works reliably. I wrote a nasty hack
> > that force-fixes the width/overlap problem with Emoji (and some other
> > odd font-substitution problems). I know that this is 'fixed' in
> > glibc's most recent release - following UNICODE recent guidance that
> > all Emoji are double-width, but it isn't fixed on macOS (Emoji without
> > spaces don't even work right in Terminal.app). Anyway, it is
> > something I could throw together as a diff - sub 40 lines. I don't
> > have a handle on what the protocol is for sharing such a thing.
>
> Make a patch. Attach the patch to an email or submit it to the wiki
> (https://git.suckless.org/sites/tree/st.suckless.org/patches).
> Instructions for submitting patches are provided on
> https://suckless.org/hacking.
Also, please post the patch to the mailing list either way. Even if it
doesn't get accepted into mainline or the wiki, I would like to see it
since I've had some problems with emoji width on Linux that I haven't
spent time investigating yet.
Eric
Received on Thu Sep 14 2017 - 22:53:13 CEST