Thanks Eric - I've used this patch but I doesn't seem to solve the problem.
I'm working on an earlier suggestion by Michael about the unicode type that
my Tibetan font is. I very much appreciate all this help!

Steffan


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>wrote:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >
> >> I've been using that patch or something like it for nearly a year now,
> >> with no adverse effects. I'm on the road right now, give me a day and
> >> I'll take a closer look at what I've got...
> >
> > Great -- thanks in advance!  I'll then wait before releasing a new
> > minor version and merging it into Emacs for Emacs 24.4.
> >
> > To other core maintainers: if you see important issues that needs to
> > be fixed in maint, let me know.
>
> Sorry this took a while to get to...
>
> I think it was a little simpler than I thought -- at least I hope that's
> true, and I'm not missing something really obvious. There are two
> patches attached, a simple one that handles re-justification of table
> fields during field movement, and another that allows for narrowing of
> columns with double-width strings. The second patch is uglier, and
> doesn't work 100% well (you get misalignment if you try to narrow a
> double-wide to an odd number of single-width characters), but it's
> better than nothing.
>
> Please test!
>
> Eric
>
>