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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode combining characters
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 20:24:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0nmbubk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADm7Y4kAvc3ogYK+PxPwAm2GaSzXwFjpRSFKkqoj4Z9msPXD2Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Anand Tamariya on Tue, 25 May 2021 21:26:44 +0530)

> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 21:26:44 +0530
> 
> Hindi Devanagari script has lot of unicode combining characters which results in misalignment in a
> rectangular overlay for constant number of characters (screenshot ) 
> What would be a recommended way to tackle this in Emacs?

Use align-to 'space' display spec and/or the window-text-pixel-size
function, which will account for the actual size of the text on
display.  string-width can also be used, but it only gives an
approximation, as it is oblivious of the actual size of the font
glyphs.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-25 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-25 15:56 Unicode combining characters Anand Tamariya
2021-05-25 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-25 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-05-25 18:15   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-05-25 18:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 19:30       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-05-25 19:44         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-26  9:51   ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-26 10:04     ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-26 12:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-26 17:14       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27  7:00         ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-27  9:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 10:34             ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-27 12:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 13:27             ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-27 13:44               ` Eli Zaretskii

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