Re: Spacing within org-mode tables when diacritics are used

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
>> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 07:58:17 -0700
>> 
>> > Because 'length' returns the number of characters in a string, not the
>> > number of bytes.  See its doc string.
>> 
>> I know... Obviously this isn't worth arguing about, but I still suspect
>> this is the change OP doesn't have:
>> 
>> http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/commit/?id=4af31090b4420978067bc24512467bcc9a78a7f1
>
> Maybe you are right, although string-width shouldn't affect display of
> normal-width characters such as é.  It only affects double-width
> characters, or characters that Emacs composes into a single grapheme
> cluster.  Multibyte-ness per se doesn't come into play here.  That's
> why I asked how that é was typed, and what was its encoding on the
> file (if the table was imported from a file).  If there were actually 
> 2 characters, e and ́, then yes, using length would produce wrong
> results that string-width would fix.

Ah, interesting -- thanks for the clarification.