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 11:14:55 -0700 Message-ID: <87wp5hge74.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <08d1db0b-ac82-ce2c-22eb-be06f10a6660@gmail.com> <83fuc624gi.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9qurv37.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83d1791r42.fsf@gnu.org> <874lsli1va.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83pob9xhe8.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 1504376187 18813 195.159.176.226 (2 Sep 2017 18:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 18:16:27 +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 20:16:13 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 1doCxj-0003u0-Lr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doCxq-0005MG-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doCxC-0005KR-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:15:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doCx7-0004J8-IS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56212 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1doCx7-0004Hq-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:15:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1doCwm-00016c-8A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2017 20:15:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:urZ+9CEWaJdP93+eijvWPrgFJIk= 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:114165 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. Ah, interesting -- thanks for the clarification.