Very interesting... thank you, Rasmus!
Indeed Consolas, the font I was using, doesn't have the check mark unicode
character (U+2713). Switching to DejaVu Sans Mono solved the problem.

Giacomo


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Giacomo M <jackjackk@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Dear all,
> > nothing of crucial importance for the sake of humanity, but when I
> realign
> > (C-c C-c) the following table:
> >
> > | entry1 | \check |
> > | entry2 | X |
> >
> > with pretty-entities toggled (C-c C-x \), columns are not perfectly
> aligned.
>
> Probably you are using different fonts for check and the rest.
>
> Use M-x describe-char and look at the line starting with
>
>    The component character(s) are displayed by these fonts
>
> Hope it helps,
> Rasmus
>
> --
> Hooray!
>
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