Hi Silvain, On 25 September 2018 at 14:25, <sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote: > The suckless futur proof solution: it is over, st goes 7bits ascii only with > it's own bitmap fonts... non english-only terminal users will just trash it.
Sounds like a better plan for longevity. > ... or a suckless futur proof unicode/font stack will have to be coded: > - unicode normalizer (NFD) (like ICU) > - a full xml smile/svg vector renderer (like librsvg/expat for the svg > part) > - a ttf/otf -> xml svg translator (in freetype). Sounds like a dumb idea to me ;) > ... or st becomes like surf: an app which is a thin suckless wrapper around a > huge pile of ... You know what: st would be better of being a thin wrapper > around libvte then, because it would be even thiner. We need a simple terminal that sucks less. No extra dependencies. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. To me it becomes more obvious now what the next steps are. Best regards, Anselm