From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50272: describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about width Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:06:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83fsuqkjcz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87czpvrs6u.5.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34042"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 50272@debbugs.gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?=E7=A9=8D=E4=B8=B9=E5=B0=BC?= Dan Jacobson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 18:07:15 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjoZ-0008cC-NK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:07:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60578 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjoY-0005Gu-EY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjoM-00058j-Ch for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:07:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48487) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjoM-0006ja-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjoM-0000oz-0Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:07:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50272 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50272-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50272.16303396053115 (code B ref 50272); Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50272) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Aug 2021 16:06:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60032 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjo1-0000o7-VW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55074) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjnw-0000ni-Uz for 50272@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:06:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjnr-0006HM-Gi; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:06:31 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3513 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mKjnq-0001EV-MJ; Mon, 30 Aug 2021 12:06:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87czpvrs6u.5.fsf@jidanni.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:213033 Archived-At: > From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson > > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 21:13:45 +0800 > > describe-char and C-u C-x = neglect mentioning anything about width. Try > them on > $ unicode --max 0 --brief -r BOX.*X > ☒ U+2612 BALLOT BOX WITH X > ⮽ U+2BBD BALLOT BOX WITH LIGHT X > 🗵 U+1F5F5 BALLOT BOX WITH SCRIPT X > 🗷 U+1F5F7 BALLOT BOX WITH BOLD SCRIPT X > They go into great detail, but miss mentioning width. You mean, you'd like to see which characters are "double-width"? We could add that, but on GUI frames that would just confuse, because those "double-width" characters more often than not take less than two full columns, especially if you happen to use variable-pitch font for such exotic characters (something that happens quite a lot). The width information is only more-or-less accurate on text-mode terminals. I wonder how to avoid confusing users with this. Does anyone have ideas?