On Thu, 6 Mar 2014, Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:38:07 +0200 > Konstantin Ritt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Did you meet any single font with glyph for U+0008 (BS)? Honestly, I > > don't imagine what U+0008 glyph representation looks like :) > > Back one space! The underlining in Unix man pages is usually > implemented as overstrike via U+0008. However, I'd forgotten that > OpenType advance widths can't be negative, so it can't be rendered > under font control.
ECMA-17, or ISO 2047, is now withdrawn, but it specified a graphical symbol for the control character we now call U+0008. The symbol looked like an arrow running from lower right to upper left, with a slight concave-downward curve. You can find a copy of the document here: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST-WITHDRAWN/ECMA-17,%201st%20Edition,%20November%201968.pdf -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
