On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 09:40:59PM -0400, Gary Allen Vollink wrote:
> As of High Sierra, many of the Wide Character spacing issues have been
> fixed (most Emoji and all the Chinese Extentions C, D and E, now
> report 2). I'll note that this is on-par with the most recent Ubuntu
> release "artful" as well.
>
> I only mention it here, because multiple threads in this list have
> talked about this problem (and wanting to see it fixed). As I
> reported earlier, the right fix has always been within libc / locale.
>
>
> The rest of this gets long, and I apologize.
>
>
> I'll note that the ones that are still problematic are old problems
> related to the fonts as some supposedly monospaced fonts properly use
> 1 space for them. For some glyphs, it seems near impossible to
> single-space them, but these are old issues.
>
> Some examples: Greek 03e2: Ϣ, Cyrilic 0x0460: Ѡ and 052a: Ԫ, Arabic
> 0604: , and 06de: ۞, Devanagari 0950: ॐ, etc.
>
> The other things are symbols that later became considered Emoji by
> some. Again, some fonts have single width glyphs available, some
> don't. More examples:
>
> 2318: ⌘ : PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN
> 231a: ⌚ : WATCH
> 231b: ⌛ : HOURGLASS
> 2328: ⌨ : KEYBOARD
> 2384: ⎄ : COMPOSITION SYMBOL
> 2386: ⎆ : ENTER SYMBOL
> 2387: ⎇ : ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL
> 238c: ⎌ : UNDO SYMBOL
> 2393: ⎓ : DIRECT CURRENT SYMBOL FORM TWO
> 2397: ⎗ : PREVIOUS PAGE
> 2399: ⎙ : PRINT SCREEN SYMBOL
> 239a: ⎚ : CLEAR SCREEN SYMBOL
> 23ce: ⏎ : RETURN SYMBOL
> 23cf: ⏏ : EJECT SYMBOL
> 2487: ⒇ : PARENTHESIZED NUMBER TWENTY
>
> Thank you,
> Gary Allen
>
Hey Gary,
Thanks for reporting it :)
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Kind regards,
Hiltjo
Received on Mon Oct 23 2017 - 10:06:22 CEST