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.help Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:44:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83sfiig87w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <_AODCZ2cNjiSAkIvdrGzDgeSNSWqJoJ9xfXn-zFenyY-yTUYx-Ijx0k4-Lq46rN4CjdkyIrzIBD1h4YY23BAP089R0Tg0kzM9MOUnaEOFrs=@protonmail.com> <835yffgfwp.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1sbez2r.fsf@gnu.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="16801"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 16 17:44:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ovLWu-0003zU-K2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:44:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovLWT-0007AJ-JG; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovLWS-00077b-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ovLWR-0000qV-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:44:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=1Nn6/drvPOzpQl9y9YNHD4/FxQ2/4igfu6Ofdw+9S3k=; b=pX7LHe3J0jcbPJChm03z 9/QEgc/FaXNVhLCGFG+3+wgX9Eb+SGcYopYfLdUCa6LULuFX5do5emM5jHl8LORvaLzn0+rvujm1b vWqQfRw63GYlZNpUu3tAy20c9gXVZ+IEImysadJPTuH4EVY7DWOUXaIIsMt8r/67VjAKHI2XJJUdT SrpJGN1ZiHZFrLhMxWDKHDjPfm7gNNNGeFBgonprngEVRH/2g+S1Tq/00e6gPXXsEImI3nphQ6FS8 j/uK6eKDEzTJ4CjJDp3LBog8x/wYfRgkcLhbYB/zx1TFAMPUm9NQIXUwudepNcTDnAEIrzCN8Ex1W MKG6tIPXTjY8Cw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (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 1ovLWP-0000Fe-GQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:44:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141011 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong > > > thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to > > > what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.) > > > > > > Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument? > > The premise seems to be that "string-width" returns it. Obviously, sane code should round the value up, not use it literally. > I would like to have the ability to pass unicode characters. This has nothing to do with Unicode.