From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:13:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83pob9xhe8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <08d1db0b-ac82-ce2c-22eb-be06f10a6660@gmail.com> <83fuc624gi.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83d1791r42.fsf@gnu.org> <874lsli1va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504365292 26289 195.159.176.226 (2 Sep 2017 15:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 15:14:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 02 17:14:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1doA83-000613-9x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 17:14:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doA8A-000712-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doA7Z-00070H-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doA7U-0005zn-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:14:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doA7U-0005zb-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2352 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1doA7T-0000No-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 11:14:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <874lsli1va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:58:17 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114164 Archived-At: > From: Eric Abrahamsen > Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:58:17 -0700 > > > Because 'length' returns the number of characters in a string, not the > > number of bytes. See its doc string. > > I know... Obviously this isn't worth arguing about, but I still suspect > this is the change OP doesn't have: > > http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=4af31090b4420978067bc24512467bcc9a78a7f1 Maybe you are right, although string-width shouldn't affect display of normal-width characters such as é. It only affects double-width characters, or characters that Emacs composes into a single grapheme cluster. Multibyte-ness per se doesn't come into play here. That's why I asked how that é was typed, and what was its encoding on the file (if the table was imported from a file). If there were actually 2 characters, e and ́, then yes, using length would produce wrong results that string-width would fix.