From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41017
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Subject: Re: gnus-correct-length vs. string-width
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:24:39 +0100
Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen
Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu
Message-ID: <m3666rorm0.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
References: <m3sn9vctee.fsf@defun.localdomain> <iluadw3mf85.fsf@extundo.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176482 3977 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:01:22 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:01:22 +0000 (UTC)
Return-Path: <owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu>
Original-Received: (qmail 15048 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 23:31:49 -0000
Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13)
  by mastaler.com with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 23:31:49 -0000
Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists)
	by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1)
	id 16K6RF-0001LU-00; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:29:21 -0600
Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:29:11 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66])
	by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA22602
	for <ding@hpc.uh.edu>; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:28:59 -0600 (CST)
Original-Received: (qmail 14984 invoked by alias); 28 Dec 2001 23:29:03 -0000
Original-Received: (qmail 14979 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2001 23:29:02 -0000
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66)
  by gnus.org with SMTP; 28 Dec 2001 23:29:02 -0000
Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 16K6fO-0004tS-00
	for <ding@gnus.org>; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:43:58 +0100
Original-To: ding@gnus.org
Original-Path: not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding
Original-Lines: 20
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org
Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009583038 18674 195.204.10.148 (28 Dec 2001 23:43:58 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Dec 2001 23:43:58 GMT
Mail-Copies-To: never
X-Now-Playing: Hrvatski's _Oiseaux 96-98_: "You Didn't Look High Enough"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104
 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
X-Face: &w!^oO<W.WBH]FsTP:P0f9X6M-ygaADlA_)eF$<UwQzj7:C=Gi<a?/_4$LX^@$Qq7-O&XHp
 lDARi8e8iT<(A$LWAZD*xjk^')/wI5nG;1cNB>~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\<y
Cancel-Lock: sha1:1NWoGhYWOiZRLCc5G6xemz6Irc0=
Precedence: list
X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41017
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41017

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> When I try the examples from the original thread
> (<87itf461hj.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> etc) `string-width' works fine.
> (format "%-10s" ...) with wide characters still behaves differently
> between Emacs and XEmacs though, but that shouldn't matter.

It seems to work correctly on Emacs 20, 21 and XEmacs 21, so I think
we should probably ditch `gnus-correct-length' and related functions
like `gnus-char-width'.

Or, at the very least, have gnus-ems.el just check whether
`string-width' gives reasonable results, and defalias according to
that.

Unless somebody has a good reason for why we shouldn't do that...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen