From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: double-width characters in tables
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:32:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87halhiym2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v6tdcmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:56:17 +0800")
File a bug report - M-x report-emacs-bug RET - against Orgmode. I am
sure something useful will come out of it, eventually. It is good to
get eyes and mouths of emacs-devel-ers involved, for whatever it is
worth. Believe me it is good, for the discussion and suggestions it
will open up.
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> This problem has been flagged up before:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-issues.html#mid-87pqt04qg1-2Efsf-40gmail-2Ecom
>
> It's causing me headaches at the moment, so I'm trying to see if I can
> find a solution.
>
> The proximate cause of issues with double-width characters in table
> fields (they also mess with justification) is that the contents of the
> fields are propertized with a length based on `length', and not
> `string-width'. So you get this:
>
> #("《蛙》" 0 3 (fontified t line-prefix #(" " 0 4 (face org-indent))
> wrap-prefix #(" " 0 4 (face org-indent)) face org-table))
>
> 3 is the number of characters in the string, but it takes up 6 columns
> of screen width. That messes up justification.
>
> I can't for the life of me figure out where that number is getting added
> to the string! I tried changing `length' to `string-width' in all manner
> of org functions, such as `org-add-props', but could never get that
> number changed during the fontification of the org tables.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if this is something outside of org, or if
> "fixing" it would lead to more troubles, but does anyone have any ideas
> about this? Fixable, or not?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 10:56 double-width characters in tables Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-12 11:02 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-02-12 11:22 ` Bastien
2013-02-12 11:16 ` Bastien
2013-02-12 15:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-12 15:50 ` Nick Dokos
2013-02-12 15:55 ` Bastien
2013-02-12 17:55 ` Takaaki ISHIKAWA
2013-02-12 18:43 ` Achim Gratz
2013-02-13 1:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-13 2:23 ` [PATCH] " Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-13 11:42 ` Bastien
2013-02-13 13:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-13 8:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-02-13 11:31 ` Bastien
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