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bug#4084: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather tha
From: |
'Roger Leigh' |
Subject: |
bug#4084: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:37:03 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 08:24:29AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> > Much nicer! It would be great if these could be made the default in
> > place of the ugly ASCII.
>
> Sure doesn't look nicer to me! See attachment.
>
> Boxquote should not use Unicode characters unless the buffer is already
> Unicode
> encoded. Even then, I'm not convinced the Unicode version looks better.
I think your font is to blame here; perhaps it's using a fallback as
the corners, and as a result they don't line up correctly. Even so,
IMO this looks (subjectively) better than ASCII. I agree that
using Unicode characters in a non-Unicode buffer would be wrong;
boxquote should use a fallback in that case (can Emacs do
transliteration for non-representable characters when you insert
characters not represented in the buffer encoding)?
Anyhow, I'll pass this along to the author, since it's not part of
Emacs itself.
Regards,
Roger
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