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#4839
23.1.50; *Buffer List* -- incorrect handling of multibyte characters?
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Reported by: stepnem <at> gmail.com
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:55:05 UTC
Severity: minor
Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #18 received at 4839 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):
Štěpán Němec <stepnem <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:08:16AM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> stepnem <at> gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Here is a part of my *Buffer List*:
>> >
>> > desktop-menu.el 20228 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/load/desktop-menu.el
>> [...]
>> > 面無人色.org 11681 Org ~/Documents/ling/cn/面無人色.org
>> > xhc.org 1833 Org ~/Documents/ling/cn/xhc.org
>> > 词典.org 2940 Org ~/Documents/ling/cn/词典.org
>> [...]
>> > All the `Org' lines, with exception of `xhc.org', are misaligned.
>>
>> When I copy and paste your buffer names, the issue seems to be that
>> `string-width' returns an incorrect value (eg 13 when the buffer name
>> actually seems to occupy 12). Although some of these characters seem
>> to have a non-integer width on my system, so I don't see that it is
>> possible to get this right. But it still looks more wrong than it
>> should be (off by > 1 character).
>
> Yes -- when I view your quotation from my mail above in Mutt, it's
> aligned correctly, but as soon as I cut & paste it into an Emacs buffer,
> it's misaligned again, the exact same way as displayed in the *Buffer List*...
If the double width characters are not exactly twice as wide as the
single width characters there is not much that can be done about that.
Andreas.
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