From 2b89f0978422d21e419e2af913b4f9f75b3954eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:42:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix 'whitespace-mode' in CJK locales * lisp/international/characters.el (ambiguous-width-chars): Remove U+00A4 and U+00B7 from the list of ambiguous-width characters. (cjk-ambiguous-chars-are-wide): Doc fix. (Bug#76852) (cherry picked from commit 1a8fbf69e3378996e633cf299b6a2d0716722d86) --- lisp/international/characters.el | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/international/characters.el b/lisp/international/characters.el index 66f9bef1a74..1697c9af752 100644 --- a/lisp/international/characters.el +++ b/lisp/international/characters.el @@ -1428,12 +1428,14 @@ with L, LRE, or LRO Unicode bidi character type.") ;; A: East Asian "Ambiguous" characters. (let ((l '((#x00A1 . #x00A1) - (#x00A4 . #x00A4) + ; (#x00A4 . #x00A4) whitespace-mode uses this (#x00A7 . #x00A8) (#x00AA . #x00AA) (#x00AD . #x00AE) (#x00B0 . #x00B4) - (#x00B6 . #x00BA) + ; (#x00B6 . #x00BA) whitespace-mode uses U+00B7 + (#x00B6 . #x00B6) + (#x00B8 . #x00BA) (#x00BC . #x00BF) (#x00C6 . #x00C6) (#x00D0 . #x00D0) @@ -1667,6 +1669,10 @@ fonts being used. In some CJK locales the fonts are set so that these characters are displayed as full-width. This setting is most important for text-mode frames, because there Emacs cannot access the metrics of the fonts used by the console or the terminal emulator. +You should configure the terminal emulator to behave consistently +with the value of this option, by making sure it dispays ambiguous-width +characters as half-width or full-width, depending on the value of this +option. Do not set this directly via `setq'; instead, use `setopt' or the Customize commands. Alternatively, call `update-cjk-ambiguous-char-widths' -- 2.39.5