From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:03:35 +0200 Message-ID: <831tlm3snc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86bnkvilxl.fsf@example.com> <86r3tqchqt.fsf@example.com> <83zj8dua5s.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaotyxwn.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83fva47dak.fsf@gnu.org> <878ufwcamp.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83k2zf6g08.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3tmjvr2.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83lhju4dmw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424354669 5246 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2015 14:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sva-news@mygooglest.com, larsi@gnus.org, 19872@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 15:04:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YORiE-0005aN-Kp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:04:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YORiE-0003av-4J for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YORi6-0003aa-De for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YORhy-0004Yt-Ia for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YORhy-0004Yd-GK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YORhx-0000BH-Ru; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:04:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:04:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19872 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs,gnus X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19872-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19872.1424354613654 (code B ref 19872); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:04:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19872) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2015 14:03:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48452 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YORhR-0000AR-HJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:41329) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YORhL-0000AD-3E for 19872@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:03:27 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NK000K00UPRF200@mtaout25.012.net.il> for 19872@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:57:59 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NK000GIAUSNP650@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:57:59 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x 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:99591 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , sva-news@mygooglest.com, > 19872@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:49:32 -0500 > > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> [12345678901234567890] Foo > >> > >> no amount of align-to will make these columns line up. > > > That's a separate problem. I thought you said that you were > > truncating too long strings, so I thought these cases were already > > taken care of. > > The problem is that truncating based on display width is difficult and > costly if we want to handle proportional fonts. I agree in general, but cannot see why this particular case couldn't be resolved reasonably well, e.g. by adding one more column "just in case", before the :align-to property.