GNU bug report logs - #44664
28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2020 19:46:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 6718, 36983

Found in versions 23.2, 25.3, 27.0.50, 28.0.50

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Message #120 received at 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, bugs <at> gnu.support, 44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44664: 28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:32:58 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: schwab <at> linux-m68k.org,  bugs <at> gnu.support,  44664 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 06:58:58 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > So if this is the case, then I think the only way we can reasonably
> > improve the situation in this area is to have a more elaborate font
> > setup.  It would be good to know what font is used by terminal
> > emulators, like xterm or rxvt, in these cases, so we could see if we
> > could use the same font setup.
> 
> Yup.  I'm using Terminal under Debian, and it's finding a font to use
> here where "ΡΎ" is the same width as "x", which ideally Emacs should also
> do in term-mode windows.

Can you tell which font(s) does Terminal use for non-Latin characters,
such as the one above?  Maybe we could learn something from that.
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