[BRLTTY] Multi-column characters on Linux
Aura Kelloniemi
kaura.dev at sange.fi
Mon Oct 4 12:29:01 EDT 2021
On 2021-10-04 at 10:51 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2021/10/04 at 15:50 +0300]
> >I would also like to get rid of this space removal right away, because I'm
> >debugging alignment issues, and I might provide misinformation to developers
> >because of this. Could you please tell me the location of the code
> >implementing this, so I can comment it out even before this is made
> >configurable.
> On line 1114 of the Linux screen driver you'll find: blanks = getCharacterWidth(wc) - 1;
> Try changing the value to 0 (i.e. as if getting the width returned 1 all the time). Let me know if that does what you need.
Seems to work, thanks. (In fact I see more problems in some applications, but
I always prefer honesty over good impression.)
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Aura
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