Full-width characters break column display

Full-width characters break column display

[Leo Gaspard]

Hello,

Small issue I've been having with org-mode: full-width characters
(eg. 何か) appear to be breaking column display.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

Cheers, and thank you for making org-mode as great as I'm currently
discovering it is!
Leo

Re: Full-width characters break column display

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Leo Gaspard <orgmode@leo.gaspard.io> writes:

> Small issue I've been having with org-mode: full-width characters
> (eg. 何か) appear to be breaking column display.

Org tables assume a fixed-width font.  You need to use one, if such
thing exists for these characters.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Full-width characters break column display

[Leo Gaspard]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>> Small issue I've been having with org-mode: full-width characters
>> (eg. 何か) appear to be breaking column display.
>
> Org tables assume a fixed-width font.  You need to use one, if such
> thing exists for these characters.

Well, it is fixed-width, but twice the width of spaces and vertical
characters.

Using it with regular English ｍａｋｅｓ　ｉｔ　ｌｏｏｋ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｔｈ
ｉｓ, which I guess you'll grant me is not really usable :)

I wonder if it'd be possible to support full-width chars for CJK script?

Re: Full-width characters break column display

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Leo Gaspard <leo@gaspard.ninja> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>>> Small issue I've been having with org-mode: full-width characters
>>> (eg. 何か) appear to be breaking column display.
>>
>> Org tables assume a fixed-width font.  You need to use one, if such
>> thing exists for these characters.
>
> Well, it is fixed-width, but twice the width of spaces and vertical
> characters.
>
> Using it with regular English ｍａｋｅｓ　ｉｔ　ｌｏｏｋ　ｌｉｋｅ　ｔｈ
> ｉｓ, which I guess you'll grant me is not really usable :)
>
> I wonder if it'd be possible to support full-width chars for CJK
> script?

The problem is that 

  (string-width "何か")

equals

  (string-width "    ")

i.e, 4 characters, but both strings do not have the same length
visually.

As long as the two sexps above disagree, it seems difficult to support
this.

Re: Full-width characters break column display

[Leo Gaspard]

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> The problem is that 
>
>   (string-width "何か")
>
> equals
>
>   (string-width "    ")
>
> i.e, 4 characters, but both strings do not have the same length
> visually.
>
> As long as the two sexps above disagree, it seems difficult to support
> this.

Oh. OK, so now I feel stupid: I was convinced full-width chars were
twice the width of half-width chars… and it turns out the names are
treacherous, and they are actually not.

I guess this is a font / display issue then, and not an org-mode
issue.

Sorry for having bothered you and thank you!
  Leo