Re: "superscript" asterisk is gone!

BPJ wrote:
>
>
> Den 22 maj 2017 21:32 skrev "Charles E Campbell"
> <drchip@campbellfamily.biz <mailto:drchip@campbellfamily.biz>>:
>
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> > In Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 in gvim 8.0.600 for GTK3 (which I just
> > made using "make reconfig" after an update of the python2,
> python3 and
> > IIRC lua packages), U+20F0 is present in the buffer and gvim
> > recognises it as a composing character, but its display is easy to
> > miss: AFAICT only 3 pixels are in the foreground colour, at top
> right
> > of the character cell, in this shape (shown here by one asterisk per
> > pixel):
> > **
> > *
> >
> > When the cursor is on it, ga and g8 give the expected values
> below the
> > status line.
> >
> Hello:
>
> The glyph doesn't have much to show, but frequently its not showing
> anything. Sometimes when I press ctrl-L for a refresh it will appear.
> Sometimes.
>
>
> When wearing my historical linguistic hat I use a lot of letters with
> diacritical marks, both combining and precomposed, and it is common
> that marks over high letters like caps and k h b d l and below deep
> letters like g j q y get cut off. Apparently Vim draws each line with
> an upper and lower border and whatever falls above or below that
> border is hidden. Follow this link for a feature of Christian's
> unicode.vim plugin which is very helpful:
>
> https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim/blob/master/doc/unicode.txt#L369
>
> It doesn't solve the problem per se, but it shows the name, codepoint,
> etc. of the (base) character and any combining characters under the
> cursor.
>
> You can also use matchadd() to make Vim highlight certain characters
> or character combinations differently. I do that with some Greek
> characters where certain diacritics are hard to discern.
>
> /bpj
>
Thank you
Chip Campbell

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