Re: 1.23: UTF-8 device: more display oddities

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20220917152906.UhDto%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
 |Ralph Corderoy wrote in
 | <20220917105400.A3F1121CB6@orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
 ||>   ` U+0060, GRAVE ACCENT, "backtick"
 ||>
 ||> is displayed as
 ||>
 ||>   ‘ U+2018, LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
 ||>
 ||> which in Liberation Mono (at least!) this reverses the direction of
 ||> the tick.
 ||
 ||This shows the problem.
 ||
 ||    pango-view --backend ft2 --header --font 'Liberation Mono' \
 ||        --dpi 96 --hinting none \
 ||        -t "$(troff -Tutf8 <<<'`'\'' \`\'\'' \(aq' | grotty)"
 ...
 ||The font's designers have chosen to make the 6 and 9 quotes both lean to
 ||the right and, as is common today, to have very slight bulges so they
 ||are similar in appearance.

..just to add that Liberation seems to be a free font used as
a default in LibreOffice, which i did not know until just now,
searching for a different monospace font.

--steffen
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