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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Indeed.  However, we could provide alternative functions for `cut' and
> `max' -- `mule-cut' and `mule-max' -- that does things the hard, but
> correct way.  (Or by just supplying variables to let users control
> this.  Say -- `gnus-format-correct-string-widths' or something.

I've just implemented the latter.  It even seems to work when the
one-char-wide characters are an uneven multiple of the twice-as-big
characters.

Of course, all of this becomes irrelevant when we start using
proportional fonts.

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