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Bug#359006: xterm: unicode glyph rendering glitch



Hi,

putting the submitter back in the loop.

Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> (10/11/2006):
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:00:11AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > By doing this (putting a mail-like > in front of U+2218), you're making
> > vim output U+2218 in bold font (because the mail syntax expresses a
> > color that result into bold font in your vim configuration). Then xterm
> > has to draw a bold U+2218. The problem is that for this you need a bold
> > font that holds U+2218, and it seems your system doesn't have any (just
> > like mine, actually), so xterm can't do much.
> 
> From the context, it sounds as if the font contains other glyphs that work.
> I might be able to improve it by making xterm check if the normal/bold
> fonts contain a different number of glyphs, and in that case add some
> checks to use the normal glyph when the bold one is missing.

What's the status here?

KiBi.

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