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Spare a thought for we developers of terminal emulators. The block and line drawing characters have been being bodged since the time that IBM added the extra 9th column in hardware.

I have a fairly trivial bodge for them in mine. Kovid Goyal over a period of 7 years has built up an extensive system for overriding the glyphs for block and line drawing characters that are supplied in fonts and replacing them with ones that Kitty constructs itself, all started because they just didn't line up when using what the fonts supplied.

* https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/16

* https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/28b84a2d5b2720b88fd...




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