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: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 14:02:20 -0700 Message-ID: <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <08d1db0b-ac82-ce2c-22eb-be06f10a6660@gmail.com> <83fuc624gi.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 1504299930 11795 195.159.176.226 (1 Sep 2017 21:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 21:05:30 +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 Fri Sep 01 23:05:20 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 1dnt7k-0001y8-T8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:05:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnt7q-0000Kz-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnt70-0000Kf-OO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnt6v-0006dg-Vv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:04:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43883 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnt6v-0006az-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dnt6Y-00070R-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:03:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UiRyzZ6jasd3XJSxDl1csOeLe74= 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:114158 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Leo Vivier >> 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 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. 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. But that was ages ago, he'd have to have a really old Org. Eric