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Bug#418324: xterm: baffling weirdness with 9x15 font and some Unicode glyphs



On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:21:25PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:14:17AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > grep'ing the code, I see some special case in wcwidth.c (the built-in flavor)
> > > which may be related - makes xterm treat those codes as double-width.  I expect
> > > they're being scaled.
> > 
> > xterm does treat them as double-width in all the default bitmap fonts in
> > the resources; but it's only in 9x15 that the glyph doesn't render, which
> > suggests to me another layer to the problem.
> 
> Perhaps not 9x15 - in the default font, which is actually 6x13, I see the
> angle brackets looking more like parentheses - and not scaled.

You're right.  The glyphs look okay in 6x13, don't get rendered at all in
9x15, and look like they've been scaled in an ugly way in the other fonts.

(nil2 excepted, as I don't know what I'm looking at there.)

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