On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 09:40:59PM -0400, Gary Allen Vollink wrote: > As of High Sierra, many of the Wide Character spacing issues have been > fixed (most Emoji and all the Chinese Extentions C, D and E, now > report 2). I'll note that this is on-par with the most recent Ubuntu > release "artful" as well. > > I only mention it here, because multiple threads in this list have > talked about this problem (and wanting to see it fixed). As I > reported earlier, the right fix has always been within libc / locale. > > > The rest of this gets long, and I apologize. > > > I'll note that the ones that are still problematic are old problems > related to the fonts as some supposedly monospaced fonts properly use > 1 space for them. For some glyphs, it seems near impossible to > single-space them, but these are old issues. > > Some examples: Greek 03e2: Ϣ, Cyrilic 0x0460: Ѡ and 052a: Ԫ, Arabic > 0604: , and 06de: ۞, Devanagari 0950: ॐ, etc. > > The other things are symbols that later became considered Emoji by > some. Again, some fonts have single width glyphs available, some > don't. More examples: > > 2318: ⌘ : PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN > 231a: ⌚ : WATCH > 231b: ⌛ : HOURGLASS > 2328: ⌨ : KEYBOARD > 2384: ⎄ : COMPOSITION SYMBOL > 2386: ⎆ : ENTER SYMBOL > 2387: ⎇ : ALTERNATIVE KEY SYMBOL > 238c: ⎌ : UNDO SYMBOL > 2393: ⎓ : DIRECT CURRENT SYMBOL FORM TWO > 2397: ⎗ : PREVIOUS PAGE > 2399: ⎙ : PRINT SCREEN SYMBOL > 239a: ⎚ : CLEAR SCREEN SYMBOL > 23ce: ⏎ : RETURN SYMBOL > 23cf: ⏏ : EJECT SYMBOL > 2487: ⒇ : PARENTHESIZED NUMBER TWENTY > > Thank you, > Gary Allen >
Hey Gary, Thanks for reporting it :) -- Kind regards, Hiltjo
