GNU bug report logs - #64420
string-width of … is 2 in CJK environments

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Message #107 received at 64420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
Cc: itaemu <at> gmail.com, casouri <at> gmail.com, 64420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64420: string-width of … is 2 in CJK
 environments
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:09:15 +0300

> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:40:01 +0300
> Cc: itaemu <at> gmail.com, casouri <at> gmail.com, 64420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> >> With the caveat that, in the terminal, if I switch to Chinese-BIG5 and
> >> visit a file with ambiguous characters like … (which triggers some bugs
> >> with display and navigation around those chars), (setopt
> >> cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide nil) doesn't fix those bugs -- I have to
> >> kill and re-visit the buffer for them to go away. But maybe that's expected.
> > Does "M-x redraw-display RET" solve the problem after setting the
> > variable?
> 
> Looks like it does, yes.

I guess the :set function should trigger that or something.  Let me
think about that.

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