From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, larsi@gnus.org, 19872@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:03:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831tlm3snc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzj8aggj9.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, sva-news@mygooglest.com,
> 19872@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:49:32 -0500
>
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >> [12345678901234567890] Foo
> >>
> >> no amount of align-to will make these columns line up.
>
> > That's a separate problem. I thought you said that you were
> > truncating too long strings, so I thought these cases were already
> > taken care of.
>
> The problem is that truncating based on display width is difficult and
> costly if we want to handle proportional fonts.
I agree in general, but cannot see why this particular case couldn't
be resolved reasonably well, e.g. by adding one more column "just in
case", before the :align-to property.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-19 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-15 9:05 bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers) Sebastien Vauban
2015-02-15 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.138.1424017693.31049.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <mailman.138.1424017693.31049.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-16 9:45 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-02-16 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-16 20:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 4:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-17 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-18 0:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-18 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-19 5:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-19 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-19 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-19 14:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-02-18 3:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-07 6:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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