From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:58:17 -0700 Message-ID: <874lsli1va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <08d1db0b-ac82-ce2c-22eb-be06f10a6660@gmail.com> <83fuc624gi.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83d1791r42.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1504364403 27366 195.159.176.226 (2 Sep 2017 15:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 15:00:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 16:59:49 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 1do9tg-0006GA-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do9tn-0001zk-HW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:59:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do9tE-0001yN-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do9t9-0000bv-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53818 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1do9t9-0000bK-8z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1do9sb-00036C-0W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 16:58:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:PV7Xny0e4BbUSkjtzQZ3wX0Fsiw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114163 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Eric Abrahamsen >> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:02:20 -0700 >> >> >> 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. >> >> Why not? Org table formatting used to be done with `length' on the >> string, I changed it to `string-width' precisely to fix wonkiness with >> multibyte characters. > > 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