bugUnifont - Bugs: bug #50321, Unifont is not marked as monospaced

 
 

bug #50321: Unifont is not marked as monospaced

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Submitted on:  Thu 16 Feb 2017 12:06:06 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Invalid
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

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Thu 02 Mar 2017 03:35:34 PM UTC, comment #2:

As there has been no reply to this in almost 2 weeks after its original posting, I am closing this item.

Paul Hardy <unifoundry>
Project Administrator
Sun 19 Feb 2017 12:52:12 AM UTC, comment #1:

Unifont is a "charcell" font, not a "monospace" font. It has glyphs that (right now at least) are either 8 or 16 pixels wide. That is by design of its creator, Roman Czyborra. A font rendering engine should pay attention to the width of each Unifont glyph, not making assumptions about the width of any glyph. For one thing, Indic fonts (Devanagari, Bengali, etc.) require a full 16 pixels wide, whereas a monospace font would try to fit them into 8 pixels, which is impossible to render properly.

I am not closing this bug report right now in case you want to discuss this further, but this is not a bug.

Paul Hardy <unifoundry>
Project Administrator
Thu 16 Feb 2017 12:06:06 AM UTC, original submission:

Programs don't see unifont as a monospaced font.

For example Visual Studio shows monospaced fonts in its font dropdowns in bold, but Unifont is not displayed in bold. The command prompt window will not use Unifont, but it will use other monospaced fonts with a bit of tweaking.

And yes the full-width characters and east-asian characters are double width, but it shares that property with some other fonts which are considered monospaced, like NSimSun.

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