Characters for insertion signs

[wissenbach]

The unicode character for the insertions could be revised, so that it looks something like "insertion┐" or "insertion╮" instead of "insertion⌉". That would change the set of characters we need in our fonts, though. I'm not really up to the state of how final the set of characters is we are allowed to use and what is already included in the fonts. Thoughts?

[gerritbruening]

Thanks for opening this discussion. I think I like "insertion┐" best.
Don't know whether this is a problem but it seems as if the angle comes with pretty much of whitespace on the right hand side, is this correct?

[thvitt]

codepoint	character	name	count	mine	Gentium Plus Italic	Gentium Plus	Ubuntu Bold Italic	Ubuntu Bold	Ubuntu Faust Bold Italic	Ubuntu Faust Bold	Ubuntu Faust Italic	Ubuntu Faust Light Italic	Ubuntu Faust	Ubuntu Mono Bold Italic	Ubuntu Mono Bold	Ubuntu Mono Italic	Ubuntu Mono	Ubuntu Italic	Ubuntu
2510	┐	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT	1											SF030000	SF030000	SF030000	SF030000
256E	╮	BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT ARC DOWN AND LEFT	1
2309	⌉	RIGHT CEILING	1		uni2309	uni2309

[wissenbach]

Thanks @thvitt . So none of the characters are completely available across our fonts. So maybe that argument would not factor into our choice? @gerritbruening, yes, there seems to be more space on the right hand side, which would maybe obscure the intended point of insertion (the inserted text ist right-aligned with the point of insertion). In summary, the horizontal line is better on the "box drawings" glyphs and the vertical line is better on the "ceiling" glyphs.


Looking at it, the "box" glyph gives a wrong impression of where the insertion occurs, so I'd say we have to stick with the "ceiling" glyph.

[thvitt]

we can add this kind of character to the 'Ubuntu Faust' fonts. I would prefer not to have to touch the Gentium fonts, though.

Another option would be to try and fit in a replacement font for specific unicode ranges (e.g., the block drawing characters) via the CSS's @font declarations – haven't tried this approach, though.

[gerritbruening]

Not sure whether I understand

In summary, the horizontal line is better on the "box drawings" glyphs and the vertical line is better on the "ceiling" glyphs.

but I think I agree to what you said.