From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:35:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <TjxpVWaoHgIxShYMLtet9PZtZOfa-qso9ZQ7Q7tNVZis9AwNQrl9TgainvSW7Rja9zMnNLi7T1iTDctSKvA0mV9jbnu_M1vjPn-_Ab4CgME=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k03ug0zr.fsf@gnu.org>
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 7:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:48:07 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > > > I would like to have the ability to pass unicode characters.
> > >
> > > This has nothing to do with Unicode.
> >
> > I do not know whether the unicode characters pose a problem with fractional sizes.
>
>
> Any character can pose such problems. It depends on the font you are
> using.
So what are people to do? Basically it means that we cannot rely on "length" and
"string-width". Then the function are there for nothing. Asking users to handle
such conditions would be too hard to do repeatedly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-16 12:47 Enclosing text in a box Heime
2022-11-16 13:07 ` Heime
2022-11-16 13:34 ` Alexis Roda
2022-11-16 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:11 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 14:20 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:51 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 16:48 ` Heime
2022-11-16 16:53 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 19:35 ` Heime [this message]
2022-11-16 19:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:01 ` Heime
2022-11-16 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 15:10 ` tomas
2022-11-18 19:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 15:06 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 16:12 ` tomas
2022-11-16 16:43 ` Heime
2022-11-17 6:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-17 6:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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