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

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20220917165637.pMpuD%steffen@sdaoden.eu>:
 |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!!!

P.S.: with the help from people of IRC i have now tested LuxiMono,
IBMPlexMono, and NotoMono, and only LuxiMono gets it somehow right
(but looks terrible as a monospace font imho).

(P.P.S.: IBMPlexMono is really a great typewriter font, but must be
relatively large to look ok, only 51 lines on the screen here,
whereas Liberation and Noto are ok with 59.  Noto i find a bit
"too crouched", but the guy speaks quite some languages, including
several Asian ones, and says it offers good support for those.
I unfortunately cannot testify, too dumb a western.  Anyhow,
i have to stay with Liberation it seems, i will make an alias to
go for -Tascii, and prepare to somehow direct people to go for
-Tascii or LC_ALL=C man.  If at least literal code blocks and such
would remain unmapped.)

--steffen
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