Bug#194529: libgtk2.0-0: No mean to display font chars which are on place of Unicode control chars

Loïc Minier Loïc Minier , 194529@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:49:01 +0200


severity 194529 wishlist
thanks

     Hi,

Victor Porton <porton@ex-code.com> - Sat, May 24, 2003:

> There are no mean to display (e.g. in GtkTextView) these font character=
s
> which are at the same places as Unicode control characters (e.g. '\n' o=
r
> "left to right override"). We need some new GtkTextTag boolean attribut=
e
> for this. (Let call it like "visible-controls").
> Actually one may need this to duplicate control characters with their
> glyphs to make them more visible (so known visible control chars mode).

 Frankly I don't understand completely what you want, but it seems like
 the support of a new function to me.  Did you check wether newer GTK
 support this?

   Thanks,

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>