Re: A patch for enforcing double-width CJK character display

[Miles Bader]

黄建忠 <address@hidden> writes:
>>> case 1: size = 13
>>> ASCII:      Lucida Sans Typewriter  [9 pix per char]
>>> CJK:        さざなみ明朝          [12 pix per char]
>>>
>>> case 2: size = 11
>>> ASCII:      Lucida Sans Typewriter  [7 pix per char]
>>> CJK:        さざなみ明朝          [10 pix per char]
>
> 1, If you use Sans font as default font, the patch will just ignore it
> and never adjust the width padding , since it is wrong setting.
>
> 2, For Sans font, it's variable pitch, every glyph in the font is
> different width.

It's "Lucida Sans Typewriter", which is a fixed-pitch font.

> So I'm wondering how you get the pixelsize of fonts?

I used "xzoom" to magnify the display, and counted the pixels... :]

-miles

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