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Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
I agree to change space to something else. Given the problems mentioned below with fonts,
maybe a good way forward is to use NBSP, which should be available in all fonts,
and also is available in olden 8-bit charsets, that are still in use.
Best regards
Keld
On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:15:17AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > In non-proportional fonts, NNBSP renders as a standard width space
> > (NBSP), so there should not be a problem as well.
>
> My Emacs 23 displays U+202F as a rectangle in many fonts, e.g.
> -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--17-120-100-100-P-88-ISO10646-1
> (helvR12.pcf.gz from xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3 on Debian 8.6).
> Playing around with xfontsel -sampleUCS and xfd -fn, I see that
> -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
> (9x18B.pcf.gz from xfonts-base 1:1.0.3 on Debian 8.6) likewise
> displays a rectangle, but the non-bold variant (9x18.pcf.gz)
> displays a space for U+202F.
>
> Maybe things look better with FreeType but not everything uses that.