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Re:Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic wr... by oldherl on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @08:23PM (#39699214)
Author here. Fair point for using pinyin directly, but the TTY font requires the glyphs to be of the same size. Squashing the longest syllables like "chuang" into one cell doesn't look nice.
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Re:Linux TTY font for Chinese, but treat it as a syllabic wr... by yorwba on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:17AM (#39702106)
It looks like each character is taking up twice the width of an ASCII symbol, but half of that is empty space. Why is that? Is that space completely unusable?
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