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.
next prev 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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