Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Unifont size difference under UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1

[Tomohiro K. <ku...@de...>]

Hi,

From: Anmar Oueja <an...@ca...>
Subject: [Mlterm-dev-en] Unifont size difference under UTF-8 and ISO 8859-1
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:19:14 -0700

> when I use MLTERM with unifont under the UTF-8 encoding, the font is 
> larger than when the encoding is ISO 8859-1. IS there a reason ? and can 
> I have mlterm use UTF-8 and use the smaller size of the fonts.
> 
> I do understand that unifont is 16 size so I am a bit confused as to 
> what happens when I switch the encoding to ISO 8859-1.

I don't understand the exact meaning you would like to tell, but
I imagine one of the following candidates meets:

1. "Font size" means the height of the font, not width.  Your iso8859-1
   font and unifont (8 pixels for normal characters and 16 pixels for
   CJK doublewidth characters) may have different width.  Many fonts
   which don't think about CJK characters have larger width than half
   of the height, while fonts which are designed to be able to be used
   mixed with CJK characters have exactly height:width=2:1 ratio.

2. Even though the heights of fonts are same, they may have diferent
   ascents/descents.  In other words, fonts have margins.  The margins
   may be different from fonts to fonts.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <ku...@de...>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/