This:

 https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/towashitallaway.pdf


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 One  more thing about that Pango experiment yesterday. At first, I was
 happy with the results. I tried some unusual  Unicode  glyphs  and  it
 worked.  Then  I started to notice a bug. Pango rendered a replacement
 character (you know, those generic squares with the hex value  of  the
 character  in it) for a simple space (0x20). Huh? Turns out, this only
 happens with bold fonts and in certain combinations.

 And it's not a bug in my code. It happens in every Gtk application.

 Long story short, Pango is not the answer to all problems. It has bugs
 as well.

 I should try to find out how Firefox or Chromium render fonts.


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 I'm  happy  that  I  dropped  my  Pango  patches.  After all, annoying
 dependencies were the reason why I switched from AwesomeWM to  dwm  in
 2012.  (Awesome  had  annoying  dependencies  back then, dunno how the
 situation is today.)


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 Speaking of AwesomeWM.

 It's been over a year since I switched  to  katriawm.  It's  been  4.5
 years  since  I switched to dwm and almost 7 years since I switched to
 awesome.  Before that came Xfce and before  that  a  short  period  of
 GNOME 2.

 What  I'm  trying  to say: It's been about 10 years since I completely
 removed Windows from my machines.

 Before that, I was using Linux and Windows in parallel, but  --  let's
 be honest -- mostly Windows. Still, it's been about 18 years now since
 I first came into contact with Linux.

 Phew. I think I'm getting old.

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