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Re: Enclosing text in a box


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:44:19 +0200

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > > The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> > > thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> > > what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
> > 
> > 
> > Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?
> 
> The premise seems to be that "string-width" returns it.

Obviously, sane code should round the value up, not use it literally.

> I would like to have the ability to pass unicode characters.

This has nothing to do with Unicode.



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