[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 19374] New: U+005F LOW LINE "_" should have smaller width than advance width

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19374

           Summary: U+005F LOW LINE "_" should have smaller width than
                    advance width
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: medium
         Component: Mono Sans
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: khan_msu at mail.ru


There is a need in monospace fonts like DejaVu Sans Mono to have underscore
character (ASCII 95, U+005F LOW LINE, "_") having its width smaller than total
advance width of the character. So that when it occurs twice or more one by
one, it would look that there is some space between them. Monospace fonts are
used in console or for typsetting programs and there is a need that it is seen
with ease that we have one, two or more underscore characters, they should be
easily differentiated when occuring one by one (cf. from code in Python
programming languge: x.__add__(2)  ). It is like "small character L" (l),
"capital character i" (I) and "digit one" (1), they should be easily recognized
and in DejaVu Sans Mono they really are. With the width of underscore character
there is the same need. Thank you in advance.


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