Re: Font support for utf8

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:45:32 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-07-10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:40:58 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

In this case, wouldn't a more appropriate route be introducing a
terminal escape sequence for this ...

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Not sure why that’s relevant to issues of font query APIs.

 
Because the font rendering is a property of the terminal or terminal
emulator.

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The question was about a property of the font. The fact that the font
happens to be used by a terminal emulator is irrelevant.

Maybe.

A terminal emulator, or some code that it uses, has to know, at some
level, whether it's able to render a given character in the font it's
currently using.  It's easy to imagine that a terminal emulator might
provide a way to query that information.  I don't know whether any
actually do so.

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