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

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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: bug#64420: string-width of … is 2 in CJK environments
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:24:21 +0300

> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 03:22:41 +0300
> Cc: itaemu <at> gmail.com, 64420 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>
> 
> On 11/08/2023 21:07, Yuan Fu wrote:
> > On GUI display, the later-half of the ambiguous characters are definitely wider than one char, but they aren’t quite 2 chars wide either. But I guess it doesn’t matter too much since one should use pixel size on GUI anyway.
> 
> BTW, I think most double-width characters on GUI are less than 2 
> characters wide?
> 
> So the point here would be that some "ambiguous" ones are still wider 
> than 1, I guess.

According to Yuan, at least in his environment those characters have a
width that is closer to 2 than to 1.  In which case using 2 would
produce better alignment.  Of course, using string-pixel-width will
produce an even better alignment.

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