Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Leo Vivier <leo.vivier@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:19:58 -0700
> 
> Here's a MWE with emacs -q.
> 
> | 1 | test  | test |
> | 2 | tést | test |
> | 3 | test  | test |
> | 4 | test  | test |
> 
> The 2nd line (with the `é') as an offset of 1 space compared to the others.
> Pressing <tab> within any of the cells to realign the table doesn't fix it.

Please show all the steps for reproducing this, not just the resulting
display.  From the rest of your text, I'm guessing that one needs to
turn on Org mode, create a table, and populate it with the above
contents.  But if I do this by hand, I don't see the problem, so maybe
I missed some step.

It is also important to describe how you typed é, assuming that you
typed it inside Emacs.  OTOH, if the table was created by importing a
file, please tell which bytes stand for é there.

Finally, please tell which versions of Emacs and Org you have
installed.

> I think this might have something to do with multibyte characters.
> Running (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters) shows that the é does 
> indeed take two bytes.

That couldn't be the reason.

> Setting the language environment to French via (set-language-environment 
> 'french) solves this issue (i.e. pressing <tab> realigns the table 
> properly), but this only last whilst the file remains opened.

What is your default language-environment?