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- From: andersa@Riga.DoCS.UU.SE (Anders Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Character Sets Need Smiley
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:01:37 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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- References: <1j8kotINNf1v@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1jhokpEINNmhm@uni-erlangen.de> <1993Jan20.232413.19449@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.232413.19449@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- > In article <1jhokpEINNmhm@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
- > >BTW: I just discovered a few seconds ago, that xterm X11R5 can't display with
- > >font -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 the
- > >NBSP (0xa0) character. Is this a well known bug?
- >
- > The font you reference is not a fixed-width font; you probably shouldn't
- > be using it with xterm (which expects fixed character cells) anyway.
-
- The "m" in field #11 of the font description supposedly indicates
- that the font is monospaced; doesn't that imply that all printable
- characters (including space) have the same width (as you may expect
- from a `typewriter' font)? Whether NBSP counts as a printable
- character is of course debatable. I happen to use this very font
- for reading Usenet News, where articles often require fixed-width
- character display...
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