On Tue, Apr 06 2021 11:27:21 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Some terminal emulators are using iso-8859-1 semantics of soft hyphen, > unicode did things differently but those terminals haven't changed. > > xterm printed as hyphen > mlterm printed as hyphen > putty printed as hyphen > urxvt overprinted on previous character > st not printed, no space > kitty not printed, no space > cool-retro-term not printed, no space > sakura printed as space
st actually relies on wcwidth(), so on Debian (for example) it prints the SHY as a hyphen. > Pragmatically the simplest fix for the original problem might be if > irssi filtered out soft-hyphen characters like mutt does in its > "is_display_corrupting_utf8()" function: > > https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/blob/master/mbyte.c#L528 Thanks, it's news to me that mutt does that. It speaks to something when an application is explicitly hardcoding codepoints not to print. I don't particularly like the 'solution' of every TUI application having to ship their own fixes for stuff like this though. -- Lauri Tirkkonen | lotheac @ IRCnet
