Re: fallbacks for nonexisting combining characters

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Agreed. The default character should only be used to represent missing
> base characters. It is definitely not suited to represent missing
> combining characters and should never be used for that purpose.
> 
> Please change xterm such that a combining character missing from the
> font is simply not displayed. Then this will also save me from having to
> add to the charcell fonts space characters for all the zero-width and
> control characters that we want to handle in xterm just like combining
> characters (as we discussed a few weeks ago).

But how can a user find that a character is missing? What about handling
the missing combining characters as non-combining?

--roozbeh


-
Linux-UTF8:   i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive:      http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/