[PATCH] Skip ZERO_WIDTH_CHAR to avoid rendering artifacts with background colors

[ambrus]

On 2026-06-30 12:52, Ross Schlaikjer wrote:
> It seems like the rxvt_font_default::draw() method handles zero-width 
> characters by just skipping them, so I applied this to the _xft and 
> _x11 versions as well, which appears to have fixed the issue (my font 
> is xft:Unifont:pixelsize=24).

The function rxvt_font_xft::draw() in src/rxvtfont.C has a comment 
saying

> xft/freetype represent combining characters as characters with zero 
> width rendered over the previous character with some fonts, while in 
> other fonts […]

Are you sure that your patch won't break combining characters that are 
represented in this first way?