From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enforcing double-width CJK character display Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:27:10 +0300 Message-ID: <8339hsg541.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20110724.144005.348302865.wl@gnu.org> <87wrf54mp8.fsf@kanis.fr> <20110726.221340.51507625.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311712051 23209 80.91.229.12 (26 Jul 2011 20:27:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: expire-by-2011-07-31@kanis.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 22:27:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QloDs-0007lD-FS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:27:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QloDr-00015E-Uo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QloDp-000152-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QloDo-0005RP-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:49506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QloDo-0005Qp-9Z; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LOY00900JGJXA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:27:01 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.248.249]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LOY009I5JH0NX70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:27:01 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20110726.221340.51507625.wl@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142323 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:13:40 +0200 (CEST) > From: Werner LEMBERG > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >> within, say, konsole 2.6.4 (from KDE 4.6.5), the character width of > >> double-width CJK characters is forced to be exactly twice the width > >> of the used console font, as expected. > > > > There is no easy way with the new display engine. > > This is bad news, since I consider this as a quite important feature. I would appreciate if we could have some details about why "there is no easy way with the new display engine" to accomplish this. What prevents this, exactly?