Re: vim seems to have problems rendering this utf8 sequence : හොඳ විනෝදයක්

Of course you can use any font in your (Vim) terminal or program, it's
just a matter of taste. Fixed width fonts cause least trouble in putting
everything on screen.

When you use Vim only for text writing and editing, and do pre print in
a separate route eg. with pandoc, you can control the font that way.
Printed text are better using proportional fonts. But they are awful for
just writing and editing.

//meine

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 03:44:54PM -0400, Eric Marceau wrote:
> I have to *confirm* my similar experience, that some characters seem to be
> using a width which is a multiple greater (and sometimes smaller) than 1
> (unity), and that for those characters (specified via Unicode reference),
> there is overlap.
>
> Without knowing the guts of *GVim*, or *MATE terminal* (my environment), it
> seems that the System-default (or Application-default) font for each of
> those is applied universally, and *NOT on an individual character basis*.  I
> assume that that is because of programmer assumptions that people would NOT
> use *mixed-width characters*, and so impose a single character width on the
> entire content display.  Obviously, that is an incorrect assumption, because
> you never know what width the Creators of various fonts might use, and the
> rendering engine should, in my estimation, be smart enough to recognize
> character-by-character width (a.k.a. old poured-lead typography plates) and
> apply those correctly where those are used.
>
> And then again, being a text editor which could conceivably by definition
> not concern itself with variable width characters, if GVim had a "mode"
> selector that would permit the setting of display rendering to one of the
> two modes
>
> - universal fixed-width, or
>
> - typesetting variable-width,
>
> then Gvim could offer the best of both worlds. 🙂
>
> Just my own two cents worth!
>
>
> Eric
>
> 69, retired Mechanical Engineer
>
>
> On 2025-05-01 00:02, brickviking wrote:
> > On my computer at least, the characters each appear to be double-wide,
> > and as a result of how gvim works, I get the left-hand side of the
> > characters presented, which makes all the characters look all squashed
> > up and overlapping. That's with the Terminus font on an earlier Fedora
> > Linux.
> >
> > Regards, brickviking
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 05:26, 'Frank Schwidom' via vim_use
> > <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is on all terminals with vim and nvim but gvim cannot display
> > the characters.
> >
> > On 2025-04-29 17:20:01, 'Paul' via vim_use wrote:
> > > Is it only Vim, or is it anything in your terminal (ie. your
> > font)? Does gvim show it OK?
> > >
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