From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 8506@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8506: 24.0.50; Wrong column count
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:24:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19880.25409.600265.116589@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lizbpnqi.fsf@gnu.org>
25 minutes ago, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [...]
> This is intentional.
> [...]
>
> However, at least on my machine, with "Arial Unicode MS" font, the
> character actually displays thinner than normal, so perhaps the font
> is wrong.
Yeah, I have a similarly narrower rendering, using Consolas.
> OTOH, this page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket
>
> says that these two characters "are canonically equivalent to the
> CJK code points U+300x and thus likely to render as double-width
> symbols".
>
> Unless someone comes up with a good reason why we should change the
> width of this character in char-width-table, or there are other
> characters which somehow defeat the column numbers, I suggest to
> close this bug.
Maybe add an option to make the column count ignore these widths
(which could also be used if you want it to be faster)?
--
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http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 11:48 bug#8506: 24.0.50; Wrong column count Eli Barzilay
2011-04-15 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-15 15:24 ` Eli Barzilay [this message]
2011-04-15 21:03 ` Eli Barzilay
2011-04-15 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-15 21:19 ` Eli Barzilay
2011-10-07 7:05 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-07 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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