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From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: missing a character / font in agenda?
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 22:09:52 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tcjbs1$kdg$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r11vnrlp.fsf@localhost>

On 05/08/2022 13:15, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
> 
>> DejaVuSansMono has at least
>> - "\u{21fd}" "⇽" LEFTWARDS OPEN-HEADED ARROW
>> https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=21fd
>> - "\u{2190}" "←" LEFTWARDS ARROW
>> https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=2190
>> from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block)
> 
> "⇽" looks better on my system. However, I do not see "⇽" LEFTWARDS
> OPEN-HEADED ARROW in Liberation Fonts used by default in Emacs on my
> system. Though I only tested using emacs -Q + M-x describe-char

You are right. Courier New is immortal and fonts created to be 
metric-compatible with it will outlive this font. I forgot about such 
compatibility test.

Another approach would be assuming reasonable set of modern fonts and 
providing some defcustom to switch to legacy compatibility mode.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-05 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12 17:18 missing a character / font in agenda? Daniel Ortmann
2022-07-12 17:58 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-12 18:45   ` [External] : " Daniel Ortmann
2022-07-12 19:52     ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-12 20:03       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-12 23:04         ` Daniel Ortmann
2022-07-12 23:31           ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-13  0:26             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-13 10:01               ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-07-17  8:58                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-19  2:11                   ` Max Nikulin
2022-07-13 10:13               ` Max Nikulin
2022-08-05  6:15                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-08-05 15:09                   ` Max Nikulin [this message]
2022-08-06  8:17                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-13  8:37     ` Greg Minshall
2022-07-16  9:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-18 22:07   ` [External] : " Daniel Ortmann

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