From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Incorrect tab-width when using non-english fonts
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:10:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y72pwbjg.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e4d2b03e0808220205j184638a9x484a643ccd4bf3b0@mail.gmail.com
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:05:50 +0800 Forrest Y. Yu wrote:
> I fetched Emacs-23.0.60.1 yesterday and built it successfully. It is
> beautiful. However, when I set default font to SimSun -- a common Chinese
> font, the tab-width becomes twice as before, that is, Emacs calculates the tab
> width in width of Chinese, which often occupies a space of two English
> letters. That makes my document looks weird.
>
> My last installation was done about 8 months ago. Things were ok with that
> version. The tab-width was correct no matter what fonts I used.
I'm not familiar with non latin scripts. But if you consider this to be
"not correct" the best is probably to M-x report-emacs-bug or at least
write to emacs-devel.
David
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2008-08-22 9:05 Incorrect tab-width when using non-english fonts Forrest Y. Yu
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