Bug#359006: xterm: unicode glyph rendering glitch

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Cyril Brulebois, le Mon 28 Feb 2011 01:42:54 +0100, a écrit :
> 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?

Still reproducable.

Samuel