Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 14:53:59 -0400
> 
> On 20/05/2020 14.49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> >> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 14:33:24 -0400
> >>
> >> Oh, I see the worry, but I don't think it's a problem — it's a feature to 
> >> split the stem into two parts :)
> > 
> > Then I guess we have very different views of what is a "feature".  To
> > me, this looks like a terrible kludge.
> 
> Yet, that's what everyone else is doing, so at least it's a predictable (and 
> convenient) kludge.

Since when we in Emacs do stuff "like everyone else" and feel good
about that?

Anyway, this argument about personal preferences is futile.  Just
understand that a feature that works for some vaguely-defined use
cases, but doesn't work for the rest is a misfeature in my book.

> I don't think the width of ⟹ as a non-composed character is too relevant, 
> since we won't break it up, right?

My point is that you cannot rely on the width being 3 columns.  It may
or may not be so.