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Comment by avereveard

4 years ago

I just launched "dir"

https://i.imgur.com/lkbOR3i.png

can't even print properly the decimal separator.

maybe it wasn't that easy.

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maficious  4 years ago

The font, m8, the font. Use monospcae font and it works like a charm.

  • mwcampbell  4 years ago

    Does the GP's chosen font work correctly in Windows Terminal, though? If so, then that proves that there is indeed more to a fully functional terminal renderer than refterm covers.

    • maficious  4 years ago

      Refterm is a not a full-featured terminal in terms of configurability, but it has all the features needed for rendering. Configuration like: choosing fonts, choosing colors, tabs, whatever, it's misc. features, which are unrelated to rendering. The case here is about rendering and it's exactly what is shite in every terminal emulator. I don't understand why everyone is arguing about it anyway. Refterm provides a fix, Windows Terminal should simply implement it. Is this dignity or what? Are you not engineers? Should you not prioritise software quality above everything else?

      EDIT: Remove argument about ease of development, because refterm is easy.

      This bugs me every time. "Wow, this software works so good, but we are not gonna make our software like that, no, we'll stick to our shite implementation."

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    • Aeolun  4 years ago

      As far as I understood from the video about refterm the speedup is mostly due to not rendering literally every frame in sequence (after all, who needs that), which is what windows terminal seems to be doing.

      That seems like it would be unaffected by correcting font rendering.

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    • vermilingua  4 years ago

      This is some schoolyard level stuff right here. The GP isn't using a monospaced font. Who, in the history of terminal emulators, has wanted to use a non-monospaced font in their terminal?

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  • avereveard  4 years ago

    I haven't changed anything, just downloaded and launched, that's the result. if the term only works with one font why is the software picking a random one from the system conf?

    • mwcampbell  4 years ago

      It looks like refterm is hard-coded to use Cascadia Mono, which isn't included in-box with Windows 10. So I don't know what happens if you don't have that font. If that's the only issue, then I think we can let that one go, as refterm is clearly only a proof of concept, and one-time logic for choosing the correct font at startup would presumably have no effect on rendering speed.

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