Re: xterm with combining characters

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Keith Packard wrote:

> If you change this characteristic of fixed-width fonts, they are no longer
> fixed width and you'll certainly break any application which uses them and
> depends on each glyph being the specified width.  In particular, xterm
> assumes each glyph on the screen takes the same space and will misdraw
> selections and repainted areas without this invarient.  This will make such
> fonts unsuitable for use with these applications.

I agree. Let the application or any other place be aware of combining
characters. The hack will annoy other applications.

--Roozbeh


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