> It also seems to align the text in icon managers slightly differently,
> which is a little odd. The text winds up a few pixels lower in the
> box. It's sorta neat that my eyes actually notice and complain about
> it...
Not sure about being lower, but yes the code changes this by changing
the way the height is computed: instead of taking the height given by
the X server (which is computed conservatively based on the tallest
char there is in the fontset, even if you'll never use this char),
I compute the height of the font only based on the chars actually used.
It is not meant to change the centering, but it may very well (should)
result in iconmanager windows being more tightly packed, especially if
you have a utf-8 locale. For ascii locales it shouldn't make any
difference, normally.
Stefan