Re: some accented chars double width

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> In uxterm, all these are single width and look fine,
> āáǎàēéěèīíǐìōóǒòūúǔùǖǘǚǜüê
> but in firefox and emacs, some are double width.

In Emacs, that's understandable, because it uses core X font protocol, and the 
default XLC_LOCALE file tries Latin1, then some Japanese bitmap fonts. In 
firefox, this shouldn't happen.

> How might I remedy this? How can I tell fontcongig or whatever to
> first try Latin extended B before Chinese?

That's not fontconfig! For Emacs, you could try downloading this file:

http://chronos.nsu.ru/fantoo/wiki/gtk1_utf8/XLC_LOCALE

Russians use it to work around a similar bug with GTK1 apps in the ru_RU.UTF-8 
locale, but it might also work for you if you put this into 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE

> Or maybe I need to apt-get install more fonts.

For Firefox, yes. Try ttf-dejavu together with fontconfig from unstable.

Please report if this helps.

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Alexander E. Patrakov