Re: Buffers menu question

[Richard Stallman]

    Perhaps that's true, but of course they should probably also be
    characters that convey the desired meaning to users.  In the case of
    buffer status, the conventional characters are `*' and `%', which in
    the font I used for menus are radically different widths (that's why I
    sound so adamant -- it really does look bad for me).

Whether * and % have the same width would be relevant
if the idea were to use * and % as alternatives in one column.
However, actually they are used independently.  So the question
is whether we can find an alternative to * that has the same width
(in common fonts) as *, and an alternative to % that has the same width
(in common fonts) as %.