GNU bug report logs - #1808
23.0.60; picture-mode not considering double-width characters alignment

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Message #17 received at 1808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: poppyer <at> gmail.com, 1808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1808: 23.0.60;
 picture-mode not considering double-width characters alignment
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:28:07 +0200

> From: Alan J Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
> Cc: 1808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  poppyer <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:11:45 +0000
> 
> I've written a small patch that I think fixes all these issues.
> 
> It works out how many columns the characters that are about to be
> over-written take up, then deletes them as before, and finally inserts a
> number of spaces to fill the gap (if they're needed). Then the old code
> inserts the new character.
> 
> Spaces seemed the like the safest option, but it could be easily changed.

Thanks, this looks correct to me.  Please commit, and I think we can
close the bug.

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