[PATCH v2 1/3] Handle CJK wide glyph rendering

[Peng Wu]

Yes, I just followed the gnome vte terminal widget code.
I will try to send v3 patch set to remove glib dependencies soon.

On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 23:22 -0500, Thomas Daede wrote:
> This is for a VT-100 style terminal emulator, right? It's designed to
> implement a grid of characters. Therefore, drawing it like a grid
> based on single or double character widths makes a lot more sense than
> detecting the length of a string. On any other UI element, detecting
> the string length would be more appropriate.
> 
> Ideally I would imagine you would always pick a fixed width font (aka
> only single or double widths) but the terminal should work "okay" with
> a proportional font, forcing it into fixed positions.
> 
> I think Peng's implementation is in line with other virtual terminals.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Peng Wu <peng.e.wu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Frankly speaking, I suspect that your new fix will break some program
> > which uses newt with proportional font.
> > PS: newt is a library for text mode user interfaces.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 11:23 -0700, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> >> I propose the drawing code be changed to something like this:
> >>
> >>    char* string = the_line_to_draw;
> >>    cairo_draw_text_at(x, y, string);
> >>
> >> And this:
> >>
> >> int where_is_position_n(int n, char* string) {
> >>    return cairo_text_width(string, n);
> >> }
> >
> >
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