GNU bug report logs - #76967
30.1; Specific UTF-8 characters causes misalignments on PGTK

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Message #55 received at 76967-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Artur Manuel <amad <at> atl.tools>
Cc: 76967-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
Subject: Re: bug#76967: 30.1; Specific UTF-8 characters causes misalignments
 on PGTK
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:18:20 +0300

> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:21:03 +0000
> From: Artur Manuel <amad <at> atl.tools>
> Cc: 76967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
> 
>  > Can you use some font-viewing utility to check if the default
>  > face's font has glyphs for the problematic characters, when Emacs 
> uses
>  > a different font for them?
> Did that just now on the problematic characters. I can finally conclude
> that this is a font-wise issue. I believe the solution is to just force
> fixed-pitch on fonts (like what foot is doing) instead of allowing fonts
> of varying width to do as they please.
> 
> However, I feel like if forced fixed-width were to be implemented in the
> future, it would need to be done as a special mode which toggles it.
> Since EWW (I think at least) and some Org-mode users would prefer to use
> variable-pitch.

No further comments within 2 weeks, so I'm closing this bug.

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