[Alpine-info] UTF-8 test message for your viewing (dis?)pleasure

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Marc Glisse wrote:


> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

>> The file displayed below looks pretty sweet on my system now.

>

> Actually, it only looks good with a terminal width of at least 150 

> characters here. Indeed alpine tends to conservatively assume most 

> characters have width 2 and wraps line that really don't need it. Note 

> that when I say "alpine", the problem could be anywhere from the 

> terminal to the font or the C library...



Good point.  I'm using urxvt terminal.  When I view the UTF-8-demo.txt 
file in "less" and narrow the terminal window to 79 characters it still 
looks the same.  So we can rule out the terminal and font in this case. 
The text file is here in case anyone else wants to test font and terminal:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt

In alpine on the same urxvt terminal it seems perfect at 142 characters 
and it starts to fail at 141.  At 141 the box alignment at the bottom 
starts to wrap and get messed up.  Alpine puts the ">" in the right margin 
to indicated a wrapped line.  At 99 the braille starts to wrap.  At 93 the 
top and bottom of the text box in the "Nicer typography in plain text 
files:" section wraps.  At 83 the math starts to wrap.  At 79 the rest of 
the text still looks good.

Mike