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#20793
25.0.50; Some Unicode glyphs aren't monospaced
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Reported by: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:02:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #16 received at 20793-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 20793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:51:59 +0200
>
> >> My preferred font is "DejaVu Sans Mono". When using the Unicode
> >> character "✜", its width is more than the standard char width. This
> >> causes alignment problems for me.
> >
> > Which alignment problems? Can you describe them?
>
> If all chars aren't the same width, it's impossible to align plain text
> into a matrix, with each char exactly below the previous one.
I understand, but I hope you are aware that Emacs cannot possibly
promise not to disrupt this alignment. If you must align text, you
need to use the ':align-to' display property (assuming you are talking
about some specialized mode).
> > As you see, Emacs 25.0.50 used a different font for this character.
> > Why did you expect it to use DejaVu Sans Mono? What is your frame's
> > default font? Do you have any font-related customizations, and if so,
> > could you please show them?
>
> I just have `custom-theme-set-faces' with default :family "DejaVu Sans Mono".
> So I would expect that to be used if possible.
>
> > Also, when was your Emacs 25 built? There were changes lately in this
> > area, so it's important to know whether your binary is recent or not.
>
> I think I built it a week ago. I've just rebuilt 00119c6, and the bug is
> gone. So I guess it's fine to close this bug.
Done.
> Just to add, in the old build the curved quotes in Info weren't
> fixed width as well.
I guess you've updated your tree after I made a change that prefers
the Symbola font for symbols, but before I followed that up with a
change that caused Emacs to use the default font if it supports a
character, even though Symbola was preferred for them.
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