bug#44664: 28.0.50; troubles with some chars in term

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> You mean they are so wide that compressing them will make them illegible?
>
> I don't know how to "compress" glyphs, actually.  I hoped that we can
> get away with just "padding", which boils down to enlarging their
> width metrics.  But if we need to make the width significantly smaller
> than the font glyph font says, I don't know what would be the effect
> of that, and I have no idea how to "shrink" a glyph on display.

Oh, I thought you said that we shrink some glyphs vertically already?

I imagined shrinking the width of a glyph would mean just throwing away
some vertical lines, or specify a transformation matrix, or something.
(I have not looked at the code, as you can tell.)

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