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> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 13:12:06 -0400
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> describe-symbol uses a similar trick (though without indirection
> through an overlay), and has the same problem.

If you a re thinking about clipping characters on display in some way,
then we don't have such capabilities, AFAIK, and to introduce that
we'd have to find a way to tell Emacs which characters should be
clipped and which should affect the line height.  Ideas (let alone
patches) are welcome.