From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Barzilay Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8506: 24.0.50; Wrong column count Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:24:49 -0400 Message-ID: <19880.25409.600265.116589@winooski.ccs.neu.edu> References: <83lizbpnqi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302882109 10830 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2011 15:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8506@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 17:41:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAl9Q-0007Ik-9l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55979 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAl9P-00063T-Sj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAl5M-0000Wy-49 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAl5H-0005Ka-P4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAl5H-0005KW-NQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAktK-000372-J1; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:25:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Barzilay Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8506 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8506-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8506.130288110211959 (code B ref 8506); Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8506) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Apr 2011 15:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAktJ-00036o-3m for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from winooski.ccs.neu.edu ([129.10.115.117]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QAktD-00036Y-CW for 8506@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:24:59 -0400 Original-Received: from winooski.ccs.neu.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by winooski.ccs.neu.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3FFOnCU025402; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: (from eli@localhost) by winooski.ccs.neu.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p3FFOn1d025399; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:24:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83lizbpnqi.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 23.2.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:25:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45824 Archived-At: 25 minutes ago, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > [...] > This is intentional. > [...] > > However, at least on my machine, with "Arial Unicode MS" font, the > character actually displays thinner than normal, so perhaps the font > is wrong. Yeah, I have a similarly narrower rendering, using Consolas. > OTOH, this page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket > > says that these two characters "are canonically equivalent to the > CJK code points U+300x and thus likely to render as double-width > symbols". > > Unless someone comes up with a good reason why we should change the > width of this character in char-width-table, or there are other > characters which somehow defeat the column numbers, I suggest to > close this bug. Maybe add an option to make the column count ignore these widths (which could also be used if you want it to be faster)? -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!