Leo Gaspard <leo@gaspard.ninja> writes: > Nicolas Goaziou <m...@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.