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emacs-27 0fb3fc9: Remove obsolete "Wide Characters" section of Gnus manu
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Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
emacs-27 0fb3fc9: Remove obsolete "Wide Characters" section of Gnus manual |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:46:56 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: emacs-27
commit 0fb3fc92b33a6adb657194e056b2910058478022
Author: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Commit: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Remove obsolete "Wide Characters" section of Gnus manual
* doc/misc/gnus.texi: This hasn't been valid since 2016.
---
doc/misc/gnus.texi | 19 -------------------
1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index c8ac7f0..a96be30 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -839,7 +839,6 @@ Formatting Variables
* Formatting Fonts:: Making the formatting look colorful and nice.
* Positioning Point:: Moving point to a position after an operation.
* Tabulation:: Tabulating your output.
-* Wide Characters:: Dealing with wide characters.
Image Enhancements
@@ -22356,7 +22355,6 @@ lots of percentages everywhere.
* Formatting Fonts:: Making the formatting look colorful and nice.
* Positioning Point:: Moving point to a position after an operation.
* Tabulation:: Tabulating your output.
-* Wide Characters:: Dealing with wide characters.
@end menu
Currently Gnus uses the following formatting variables:
@@ -22611,23 +22609,6 @@ This is the soft tabulator.
50 will be removed. This is the hard tabulator.
-@node Wide Characters
-@subsection Wide Characters
-
-Fixed width fonts in most countries have characters of the same width.
-Some countries, however, use Latin characters mixed with wider
-characters---most notable East Asian countries.
-
-The problem is that when formatting, Gnus assumes that if a string is 10
-characters wide, it'll be 10 Latin characters wide on the screen. In
-these countries, that's not true.
-
-@vindex gnus-use-correct-string-widths
-To help fix this, you can set @code{gnus-use-correct-string-widths} to
-@code{t}. This makes buffer generation slower, but the results will be
-prettier. The default value is @code{nil}.
-
-
@node Window Layout
@section Window Layout
@cindex window layout
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