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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>
Cc: 19872 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:27:19 +0200

> From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:05:58 +0100
> 
> Now that I've changed some Gnus markers to UTF8 "drawings" [1], I don't
> have my Gnus summary buffer correctly aligned anymore.
> 
> See http://screencast.com/t/s33eYYg7Cn.
> 
> Is there a solution to that, to guarantee that the alignment can be
> correct?

Only if Gnus will align text using the :align-to display property,
instead of inserting whitespace characters.

> Worse, it seems that the same UTF8 char can have a "correct" width in
> some fonts, and not in others...

Of course: it depends on the dimensions of the glyphs in each font.
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