On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Hello comrades,
Hi Christoph, > Here’s some RFC for people using double‐width characters in terminals in > their daily life. > > Which applications do you use that handle double-width as you expect them? > > Do these applications use the double-width for the layout? > > Any Chinese or Japanese user? I use them all the time -- in irssi, vim, ncmpc, ... even mc (in filenames). I have no issues anywhere with xterm. Not sure what 'use double-width for the layout' means but mc has to deal with them somehow because the panels' layout doesn't break... > If double-width characters would be drawn to fit the standard cell size of the > terminal (drawing them in half the font size) would this suffice your need? > > This question implies that it is possible to simply increase the > average fontsize so the complex glyphs look good. Would this suffice > your need? Then the standard western character would be really huge... I currently use an 18px bitmap font (misc-fixed), wide characters taking two cells, and it's so-so -- they're readable and the size of western letters is still acceptable for my taste. I've mentioned this in a dead thread in the past [1]. I saw wide characters using just one standard cell in urxvt long time ago and it looked terrible. > Naming the applications would be important so I can test st to their > compatibility. > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann Again, thanks for working on this. Petr [1] http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1210/12748.html
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