I have to *confirm* my similar experience, that some characters seem to
be using a width which is a multiple greater (and sometimes smaller)
than 1 (unity), and that for those characters (specified via Unicode
reference), there is overlap.
Without knowing the guts of *GVim*, or *MATE terminal* (my environment),
it seems that the System-default (or Application-default) font for each
of those is applied universally, and *NOT on an individual character
basis*. I assume that that is because of programmer assumptions that
people would NOT use *mixed-width characters*, and so impose a single
character width on the entire content display. Obviously, that is an
incorrect assumption, because you never know what width the Creators of
various fonts might use, and the rendering engine should, in my
estimation, be smart enough to recognize character-by-character width
(a.k.a. old poured-lead typography plates) and apply those correctly
where those are used.
And then again, being a text editor which could conceivably by
definition not concern itself with variable width characters, if GVim
had a "mode" selector that would permit the setting of display rendering
to one of the two modes
- universal fixed-width, or
- typesetting variable-width,
then Gvim could offer the best of both worlds. 🙂
Just my own two cents worth!
Eric
69, retired Mechanical Engineer
On 2025-05-01 00:02, brickviking wrote:
On my computer at least, the characters each appear to be double-wide,
and as a result of how gvim works, I get the left-hand side of the
characters presented, which makes all the characters look all squashed
up and overlapping. That's with the Terminus font on an earlier Fedora
Linux.
Regards, brickviking
On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 05:26, 'Frank Schwidom' via vim_use
<vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
It is on all terminals with vim and nvim but gvim cannot display
the characters.
On 2025-04-29 17:20:01, 'Paul' via vim_use wrote:
> Is it only Vim, or is it anything in your terminal (ie. your
font)? Does gvim show it OK?
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