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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20220917162423.TRKch%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
 |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.

Oh merde, after 45 MB download IBMPlexMono has the same problem!!!

--steffen
|
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