> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 21:55:58 +0000 > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > > > > What's the sledgehammer for Windows? > > > Not sure what you meant. "M-x term" doesn't work on Windows. > > So my question is, 'What do I use on Windows?' The application may be > disproportionate to the function I use it for.
Try "M-x shell". Most of "M-x term" is not needed on Windows anyway, because the Windows console doesn't support SGR escapes and other curses-like functionalities, at least not yet. > I will give a concrete application. If I want to make a font that is > interpretable for Tai Tham and maximally usable with VTE, what are the > VTE-specific constraints for me to be able to use it for Tai Tham when > using basic text utilities? For example, if VTE decides that for > <cons, left-matra, above-matra> as two clusters <cons> and <left-matra, > above-matra>, can I nevertheless position the above-matra above the > <cons>? For character composition, you must have a shaping engine to talk to, and the shaper should tell you the width of each grapheme cluster it returns. I don't see how you can expect wcwidth, or any other interface that was designed to work with _characters_, to be useful when you need to display grapheme clusters.
