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May 17, 2020

Lazy web, is there a way in

to calculate the number of columns a character will take up when drawn monospace? (eg CJK sometimes being 2, etc) Found github.com/unicode-rs/uni but it seems to return a number that isn't the number of columns after the character is drawn.

github.com

GitHub - unicode-rs/unicode-width: Displayed width of Unicode characters and strings according to...

Displayed width of Unicode characters and strings according to UAX#11 rules. - GitHub - unicode-rs/unicode-width: Displayed width of Unicode characters and strings according to UAX#11 rules.

Replying to

and

Yeah I currently use unicode-width in codespan-reporting for this. As

@raphlinus

says though, emoji is a challenge, and it's ultimately just an approximation, depending on how the text is shaped based on the font. Things go out the window when font fallbacks are involved. 😬

9:37 PM · May 17, 2020Twitter Web App