Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#473423: Fails Box drawing alignment tests of Markus Kuhn
Hi Juhapekka,
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:10:39 +0300
Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi> wrote:
> Once again you see some font-substitution mechanism in effect and I do
> not want to reiterate everything I said in bug #473419. In addition
> those line-drawing chars a very badly aligned in your screenshots,
> because glyphs for those boxes are taken from two or more fonts. If I
> use just misc-fixed-* in my (u)xterm, those Box drawing are done right.
> Their lines are straight and sharp. Guess who is BOTH current maintainer
> of misc-fixed-* -fonts AND author of that file UTF-8-demo.txt :-)
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
>
> BTW you can see what fonts your terminal emulator uses this way:
>
> lsof | grep firefox | grep font | grep -v /var/cache/fontconfig
>
> Just substitute that "firefox" with process name of your terminal
> emulator.
Juhapekka, you're right.
So please tell me which truetype font is good to draw boxes right
as example, that's what vlgothic author told me.
He would check it and add it.
--
Regards,
Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp
http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane
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