GNU bug report logs - #19872
24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:07:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 33232

Found in versions 24.4, 5.13, 5.130014

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 19872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sva-news <at> mygooglest.com, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,
 19872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:49:32 -0500

>> [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.

> That's a separate problem.  I thought you said that you were
> truncating too long strings, so I thought these cases were already
> taken care of.

The problem is that truncating based on display width is difficult and
costly if we want to handle proportional fonts.

That's why Lars said:

   Using align-to in the summary buffer wouldn't help much directly,
   because Gnus also has to limit the width of the strings.  That can be
   done with vertical-motion and stuff, but would make generating the
   buffer slow.


-- Stefan
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