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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:45:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1791r42.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:02:20 -0700)

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:02:20 -0700
> 
> >> I think this might have something to do with multibyte characters.
> >> Running (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters) shows that the é does 
> >> indeed take two bytes.
> >
> > That couldn't be the reason.
> 
> Why not? Org table formatting used to be done with `length' on the
> string, I changed it to `string-width' precisely to fix wonkiness with
> multibyte characters.

Because 'length' returns the number of characters in a string, not the
number of bytes.  See its doc string.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-02  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-31 19:19 Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used Leo Vivier
2017-09-01  8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-01 21:02   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-02  7:45     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-02 14:58       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-02 15:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-02 18:14           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-02 18:52           ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-02 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-02 19:23               ` Mario Castelán Castro
2017-09-02 21:16                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-09-03  1:08                   ` Mario Castelán Castro

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