Re: Any new method to deal with Emacs Fonts settings puzzles nearly every Chinese emacser？

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: tumashu <tumashu@163.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:12:01 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > On GUI frames Emacs takes the width of each character in pixels from
> > the font that is being used.  So if you want each Chinese character to
> > take exactly 2 character cells of an ASCII character, you need to find
> > a pair of fonts that satisfy this relation.  Because the font used for
> > ASCII varies between users, and the font used for Chinese probably
> > varies as well, I don't think I see how Emacs can solve this problem,
> > because Emacs doesn't understand the significance of each font.
> 
> What he is trying to say, is that the height of the mode line adjusts
> itself based on the height of the characters inside.
> 
> So, if your modeline contains (because you have such a file open in a
> buffer):
> 
>     汉语 PDF 样本文件.pdf
> 
> Then it will display as taller than if it just contains:
> 
>     PDF sample file.pdf

Yes, I understand all that, I just wonder how do other GUI
applications solve this.