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Request for Braille patterns and full support for Geometric shapes block (was: Glyphs not being rendered at uniform width) #247
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This font doesn’t contain any of these characters, so what you’re actually seeing is a fallback font, which won’t necessarily have the same metrics as SCP, hence the differing widths in your terminal. |
That makes sense. Is there any plan to add these characters? |
isn't there a "unknown character" or something that's supposed to display in these cases? |
Here is the status of the current support of these Unicode ranges in Source Code Pro (based on SourceCodePro-Regular.otf version 2.030): Braille Patterns
Geometric Shapes
Box Drawing and Block Elements
not exactly true! ;-)
There definitely is interest in some of these characters, see also #51, #22, #26
There is a .notdef character (in any font), but use of this character depends on the implementing software. In most cases, font fallback is more user-friendly, because at least there’s a chance for the semantic meaning to be understood. |
@turkeyphant can you tell me what your use case is for braille and the missing geometric shapes? |
I made some Braille glyphs following the same proportions as Source Code’s Box Drawing Characters – however I am not sure if including them in SCP really makes sense? |
. . . @frankrolf |
@kenmcd something like this: https://gist.github.com/frankrolf/10cafcbfcea55ab8aed8e24c20e0532f |
Sorry it's actually bashtop: https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop |
Another use case is Notcurses. |
FZF https://github.com/junegunn/fzf also use Braille chars. |
aristocratos/bashtop#159 (comment)
Unicode Block “Braille Patterns” U+2800 - U+28FF
Unicode Block “Geometric Shapes” U+25A0 - U+25FF
Unicode Block "Box Drawing" and "Block Elements" U+2500 - U+259F
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