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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b86e10780949 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# PKGBUILD for rxvt-unicode with support for displaying wide glyphs + +This PKGBUILD builds urxvt-unicode with the patch from +https://github.com/blueyed/rxvt-unicode/tree/display-wide-glyphs to display +glyhps that are too wide instead of a square. + +urxvt considers the font to be broken, e.g. if the glyph is wider than the +number of cells that `wcwidth(3)` reports. This gets better with Unicode 9 +(since e.g. more characters are assigned a width of 2), but it does not help +with characters from the Private Use Area (e.g. Font Awesome). + +I am coming back to this approach after +https://github.com/blueyed/rxvt-unicode/pull/1 turned out to be too fragile: + +1. the method of using a socket for communication fails for remote + applications, and already when re-attaching to a tmux session after closing + the terminal it was started from (where the terminal cannot respond to + requests on the socket then anymore). +2. using OSC terminal escape sequences also does not work with tmux (server), + and other applications that have no tty attached. |