From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "'Roger Leigh'" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4084: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:37:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20090808153703.GC21619@codelibre.net> References: <87d4768v87.fsf@ravenclaw.codelibre.net> Reply-To: 'Roger Leigh' , 4084@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249750912 7816 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2009 17:01:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:01:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 4084@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 08 19:01:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MZpIe-00065o-GY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZpIe-00034C-6C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:01:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZo8I-0007Zx-UI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZo8D-0007XW-4e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44850 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZo8C-0007X8-Me for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:41501) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZo8B-0002dL-Fa for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n78FkmvZ016060; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:46:49 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n78Fj3V1015722; Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:45:03 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "'Roger Leigh'" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:45:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 4084 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.124974583215118 (code B ref -1); Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:45:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 8 Aug 2009 15:37:12 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. 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X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:46:57 -0400 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:01:40 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:30001 Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 08:24:29AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote: > > Much nicer! It would be great if these could be made the default in > > place of the ugly ASCII. > > Sure doesn't look nicer to me! See attachment. > > Boxquote should not use Unicode characters unless the buffer is already Unicode > encoded. Even then, I'm not convinced the Unicode version looks better. I think your font is to blame here; perhaps it's using a fallback as the corners, and as a result they don't line up correctly. Even so, IMO this looks (subjectively) better than ASCII. I agree that using Unicode characters in a non-Unicode buffer would be wrong; boxquote should use a fallback in that case (can Emacs do transliteration for non-representable characters when you insert characters not represented in the buffer encoding)? Anyhow, I'll pass this along to the author, since it's not part of Emacs itself. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.