From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44664: 28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:14:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83d00apm6q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d00c1f56.fsf@igel.home> <83tutoqaot.fsf@gnu.org> <83blfvr8xs.fsf@gnu.org> <873617zlor.fsf@igel.home> <838sazqr2r.fsf@gnu.org> <877dqjhy0x.fsf@igel.home> <873617m4tv.fsf@gnus.org> <834klmr989.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19296"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 44664@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 19:16:34 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kfS0Q-0004sA-MS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:16:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52476 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfS0P-0004qC-KG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyw-0004H7-Am for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:15:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyv-0001XD-Ty for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyv-0005EZ-Mu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:15:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:15:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44664 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: confirmed Original-Received: via spool by 44664-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44664.160572327420071 (code B ref 44664); Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:15:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44664) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Nov 2020 18:14:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36450 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyT-0005Df-UN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54282) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyP-0005DP-Do for 44664@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:14:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRyG-0001UZ-9D; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3366 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kfRy8-0007OV-3T; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:14:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:37:13 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:193640 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:37:13 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , schwab@linux-m68k.org, > 44664@debbugs.gnu.org > > > So yes, in that original screenshot some characters are wider than 1 > > column. But shouldn't the Lisp program which produces this display > > take the character widths into account? > > > > Failing that, I don't see how this could be fixed, because no single > > font could support too many scripts, and if the user reads email in > > many different languages, they will eventually bump into some script > > which needs a different font. > > I was thinking you would know how terminals are solving that problem I don't even know everything about Emacs solutions to various problems we have to solve, how do you expect me to know what terminal emulators do, when that's not the code I'm familiar with? If someone wants to investigate how the terminal emulators solve this and describe that here, that would be welcome, and might give us some new ideas. > My font in XTerm is same as in Emacs, DejaVu Sans Mono. That doesn't seem to be the case, since the character glyphs in Emacs and in xterm look different. But maybe I'm missing something.