Subject: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:49:53 +1100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> AFAIR, :align-to works in units of canonical character width, so this
> problem does not exist.

I don't know what you mean by "canonical character width".

If we've reserved space for 20 default-width characters, and we have a
strings like

  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東話廣東] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo
  [12345678901234567890] Foo

no amount of align-to will make these columns line up.

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