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In article <1993Jan20.232413.19449@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> In article <1jhokpEINNmhm@uni-erlangen.de> mskuhn@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de writes:
> >BTW: I just discovered a few seconds ago, that xterm X11R5 can't display with
> >font -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 the
> >NBSP (0xa0) character. Is this a well known bug?
> 
> The font you reference is not a fixed-width font; you probably shouldn't
> be using it with xterm (which expects fixed character cells) anyway.

The "m" in field #11 of the font description supposedly indicates
that the font is monospaced; doesn't that imply that all printable
characters (including space) have the same width (as you may expect
from a `typewriter' font)?  Whether NBSP counts as a printable
character is of course debatable.  I happen to use this very font
for reading Usenet News, where articles often require fixed-width
character display...
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