On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:47:46PM +0200, Storkman wrote:
> but more generally,
> the "set of fonts covering as wide variety of code-points as possible"
> ...is just the set of all installed fonts, isn't it?
Not entirely. Let's say a system has 3 fonts installed: A, B and C. A
and B both *only*
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:23:44PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 05:36:31PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> > "
> > The font fallback in dwm and dmenu is handled via libsl (i.e drw.c) and
> > it's a huge mess [0].
> >
> > The way it works is also very inefficient (it calls
On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 22:23:44 +0600
NRK wrote:
Dear NRK,
> The "proper" way (IMO) would be to build up a list of fonts which
> would be capable of representing as many code-points available in the
> system *right at startup* - instead of checking each unknown
> code-point as we go.
>
> This way
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 05:36:31PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> "
> The font fallback in dwm and dmenu is handled via libsl (i.e drw.c) and
> it's a huge mess [0].
>
> The way it works is also very inefficient (it calls XftFontMatch() for
> every single "unknown" code-point). The `nomatches`
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 09:11:03PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> > Then write a patch to improve it instead of whining about it.
>
> The topic was font fallback; I adviced not to replicate drw, explained
> my reasoning why, and then adviced
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:50:14PM +0200, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> Then write a patch to improve it instead of whining about it.
The topic was font fallback; I adviced not to replicate drw, explained
my reasoning why, and then adviced to look into ST instead.
I don't see any whining.
- NRK
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 08:08:21PM +0600, NRK wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:42:33AM +0900, Pontus Stenetorp wrote:
> > My intuition is that it is related to font loading and fall backs, so
> > I am tempted to take a stab at it by comparing the font
> > loading/handling between tabbed, dwm,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:42:33AM +0900, Pontus Stenetorp wrote:
> My intuition is that it is related to font loading and fall backs, so
> I am tempted to take a stab at it by comparing the font
> loading/handling between tabbed, dwm, st, and sent to see if I can
> spot any difference, as the
On Mon 29 Aug 2022, Seb wrote:
>
> I am using xterm under tabbed (v.0.6) and some of the polish
> characters which are in the directory name are not displayed in the
> tabs and the rest of the name is truncated, for instance:
>
> /home/seb/żółty is truncated to /home/seb/żó
>
> when I set the
