Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20220917165637.pmpud%[email protected]>: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in | <20220917162423.trkch%[email protected]>: ||Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in || <20220917152906.uhdto%[email protected]>: |||Ralph Corderoy wrote in ||| <[email protected]>: ||||> ` U+0060, GRAVE ACCENT, "backtick" ||||> ||||> is displayed as ||||> ||||> ‘ U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ||||> ||||> which in Liberation Mono (at least!) this reverses the direction of ||||> the tick. |||| ||||This shows the problem. |||| |||| pango-view --backend ft2 --header --font 'Liberation Mono' \ |||| --dpi 96 --hinting none \ |||| -t "$(troff -Tutf8 <<<'`'\'' \`\'\'' \(aq' | grotty)" || ... ||||The font's designers have chosen to make the 6 and 9 quotes both lean to ||||the right and, as is common today, to have very slight bulges so they ||||are similar in appearance. || ||..just to add that Liberation seems to be a free font used as ||a default in LibreOffice, which i did not know until just now, ||searching for a different monospace font. | |Oh merde, after 45 MB download IBMPlexMono has the same problem!!!
P.S.: with the help from people of IRC i have now tested LuxiMono, IBMPlexMono, and NotoMono, and only LuxiMono gets it somehow right (but looks terrible as a monospace font imho). (P.P.S.: IBMPlexMono is really a great typewriter font, but must be relatively large to look ok, only 51 lines on the screen here, whereas Liberation and Noto are ok with 59. Noto i find a bit "too crouched", but the guy speaks quite some languages, including several Asian ones, and says it offers good support for those. I unfortunately cannot testify, too dumb a western. Anyhow, i have to stay with Liberation it seems, i will make an alias to go for -Tascii, and prepare to somehow direct people to go for -Tascii or LC_ALL=C man. If at least literal code blocks and such would remain unmapped.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
