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Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> As such, a character that is not one column wide spills further than it
> should. For most characters, you have `(= 1 (char-width ch))'. For
> double-width characters, that is actually `(= 2 (char-width ch))'.
> 
> So, what you want to do is go into `gnus-spec.el' and find the functions
> `gnus-tilde-max-form' and `gnus-tilde-cut-form'. They are, for
> reference, on lines 249 and 265.
> 
> You then want to rewrite those so that, rather than using `substring',
> they use something akin to `truncate-string-to-width', `string-width'
> and `char-width'.

truncate-string-to-width and string-width don't work, at least in
Emacs 21.  I've tried use them to fixed the problem before.  Using
char-width might slow down listing the summary :-(.

ShengHuo