From ffedc5d1700b330959ba0c72723a183547786cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 11:01:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] ... --- README.asciidoc | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc index 86a2d6c9e..2b0e337cb 100644 --- a/README.asciidoc +++ b/README.asciidoc @@ -401,14 +401,15 @@ setting in your kitty.conf to workaround this. But note that it might cause other issues, since now kitty and the programs running inside it may not agree on how wide characters should be. When a symbol does not fit, it will either be rescaled to be smaller or truncated (depending on how much extra space it -needs). This is often different from other terminal which just let the +needs). This is often different from other terminals which just let the character overflow into neighboring cells, leading to ugly artifacts. Additionally, some things like powerline use square icons via private use unicode codepoints that are single width. The correct solution for this is to use either use different icons that are not square, or to use a font that -defines ligatures with the space character for these symbols. See #182 for a -discussion of this approach. +defines ligatures with the space character for these symbols. See +link:https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/182[#182] for a discussion of +this approach. == A tribute