From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9496@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9496: 24.0.50; Segfault on TAB-only composition
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:39:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2EB0D1.5040704@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83haz5ck4x.fsf@gnu.org>
On 02/05/2012 08:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> If char-width returns a value that's arbitrarily ceilinged
>> at 1000, but actual characters can be wider than 1000 columns,
>> code that uses char-width to count columns will be buggy.
>
> How can an actual character (not its display-table replacement) be
> wider than that?
By "actual character" I meant to include how the character is
displayed, since char-width measures display width. So that
includes the display-table replacement if any.
>> We could address this by changing the code that renders characters,
>> so that the code limits them to at most 1000 columns on the display.
>
> That was my intent, yes.
OK, that sounds reasonable.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-05 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-13 20:22 bug#9496: 24.0.50; Segfault on TAB-only composition Johan Bockgård
2011-09-14 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-14 12:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-09-14 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-15 0:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-09-15 0:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-15 4:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2011-11-11 7:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-02-03 19:28 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-03 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-03 22:07 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-04 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-04 7:18 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-04 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-04 23:43 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-05 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-05 16:39 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
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