bug#19872: 24.4; UTF8 characters of unusual width (Gnus markers)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:05:58 +0100
> 
> Now that I've changed some Gnus markers to UTF8 "drawings" [1], I don't
> have my Gnus summary buffer correctly aligned anymore.
> 
> See http://screencast.com/t/s33eYYg7Cn.
> 
> Is there a solution to that, to guarantee that the alignment can be
> correct?

Only if Gnus will align text using the :align-to display property,
instead of inserting whitespace characters.

> Worse, it seems that the same UTF8 char can have a "correct" width in
> some fonts, and not in others...

Of course: it depends on the dimensions of the glyphs in each font.