[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Can't see underscores on Ubuntu 20.04 (#2502)

[elextr]

The issue is in the deja-vu fonts which at some font sizes at some screen resolutions specify a line height that is too small to contain the underscore once it is rounded to an integral number of pixels.  A quick google will show that it affects both vscode and eclipse and in both cases the same workaround is used, manually increase the line height.

A change has been made in Scintilla to reduce the situations this occurs, but it may not be a full fix.  That change will bubble through Geany in due course and hopefully will improve things, but there is not going to be a total fix at the client end.  So the issue is closed with a workaround because its not something we can independently fix.

Whilst its tempting to yell at Ubuntu to "fix your [expletive deleted] font" since that is the underlying problem a) I doubt that would have any effect, and b) its difficult for them to do so given they don't know the resolution of the screen being used, and the font size chosen, and therefore which way the rounding is going to go. If they adjust the line height too far it will result in complaints of excessive space between lines on some systems.  

Its just unfortunate that Ubuntu chose that font as the monospace default so the issue shows up in lots of places.

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