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Re: Small misalignments in display of utf-8 characters


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Small misalignments in display of utf-8 characters
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:33:16 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> When I look at the file
> <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt>
> in Emacs, I see some small misalignments, for example in the compound
> brackets. See the screenshot here:
> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/screenshots/emacs.png>
>
> It's not a big deal, but I'm curious what causes this? When running
> Emacs in a terminal (xterm or gnome-terminal), everything is well
> aligned: <http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/screenshots/xterm.png>

Unlike xterm, Emacs can mix and match different fonts at the same time,
which may not have the exact same metrics.

Andreas.

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