On Thu, 24 May 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> What do you mean by "that do not have an equivalent glyph in the font"?
> Only seven characters are handled by the above code: [...]
And Persian uses 4 of those. And we sometimes need to make the console
display them single-width with some glyph we will assign to them.
> The console *has* the appropriate glyph for all of these available: It
> has the same color as the background and doesn't move the cursor.
But this is also the case with any other character that is not in the
mapping table the application will give to the console, and the cursor
won't move.
Why isn't the application allowed to assign a glyph to these seven, for a
show controls mode?
--roozbeh
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