On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:38:24 +0100 Egmont Koblinger via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> I, for one, am not to the slightest bit interested in abandoning the > character grid and allowing for proportional fonts. This would just > break a gazillion of things. The message I take from that and this thread in general is that Emacs and 'M-x term' are the route to take if one only has proportional fonts. What's the sledgehammer for Windows? Where do I find the specification for fixed-width fonts (is wcswidth() the core?) and how do I select the set of fonts to use? Do I need to use fontconfig where available? Richard.
