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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Change default display of variation selectors
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:28:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v92uz617.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6k7hsc5.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:04:10 +0200)

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:04:10 +0200
> 
> 
> etc/TODO says:
> *** Consider changing the default display of Variation Selectors
> 
> Attached a patch to use 'zero-width for them by default (since theyʼre
> frigging annoying). We could use 'thin-space by default I suppose.

I think thin-space is better.  Emacs doesn't normally hide any
characters entirely from display, so zero-width sounds too radical to
me.

> Do we need to support VS-16 through VS-32 as well?

You mean through VS-256, right?  No, I don't think we should, not
unless we support the sequences with these selectors.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20 21:04 [RFC] [PATCH] Change default display of variation selectors Robert Pluim
2021-09-21  8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-21  9:50   ` Robert Pluim

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