From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:45:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83d1791r42.fsf@gnu.org> References: <08d1db0b-ac82-ce2c-22eb-be06f10a6660@gmail.com> <83fuc624gi.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504338365 15147 195.159.176.226 (2 Sep 2017 07:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 07:46:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 02 09:45:51 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1do37d-0002pm-Ie for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 09:45:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do37k-0001qm-EX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41163) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do37D-0001pr-IH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do379-00039A-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do378-000392-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:45:10 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1464 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1do378-0007q6-8j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 03:45:10 -0400 In-reply-to: <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:02:20 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114161 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > 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.