From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; wrong glyph widths of some Unicode codepoints Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:57:18 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87zlqhiej5.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <8763t6r1tp.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <87zlqhv71h.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211535100 4332 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 09:31:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:31:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 11:32:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzTdH-0004CC-Ru for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 11:32:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTcX-0002Wh-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:31:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTGL-0003rG-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:08:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTGJ-0003qp-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42552 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTGF-0003qe-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:08:28 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58610 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzTGE-00045L-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTG9-0004B6-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 09:08:21 +0000 Original-Received: from e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.45.149]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 09:08:21 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 May 2008 09:08:21 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178045149.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vpErzxp46afgsKb59REzCWCxxD8= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97569 Archived-At: Not that it solves any Emacs devel related problems but maybe the this specific usage problem... On Fri, 23 May 2008 16:55:53 +0900 Kenichi Handa wrote: > Ah! "dejavu sans mono" and "bitstream vera sans mono" > happen to have the same metrics. For the "common" characters they are the same. The DejaVu fonts are just the Bitstream fonts plus additional glyphs. > BTW, if you know that you want "dejavu sans mono" for them, > how about using it as the fallback font as this: Or use only the DejaVu fonts. BTW Kenichi: Do you know urxvt aka rxvt-unicode? It's a terminal emulator for X that claims to have good unicode support. IMHO (not that I'm in any way qualified ;) it's doing a very good job in picking the right fonts. It supports xft as well as old school X fonts. David