Re: [PATCH] blame: add correct paddings in time_buf for align

> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> When show blame information with relative time, the UTF-8 characters in
>>> `time_str` will break the alignment of columns after the date field.
>>> This is because the `time_buf` padding with spaces should have a
>>> constant display width, not a fixed strlen size.  So we should call
>>> utf8_strwidth() instead of strlen() for calibration.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Before applying this patch:
>>>
>>>         5817da01 builtin-blame.c   (Pierre Habouzit             6 年前                         21) #include "parse-options.h"
>>>         ffaf9cc0 builtin-blame.c   (Geoffrey Thomas             5 年前                         22) #include "utf8.h"
>>>         3b8a12e8 builtin/blame.c   (Axel Bonnet                 3 年 10 个月之前            23) #include "userdiff.h"
>>>         25ed3412 builtin/blame.c   (Bo Yang                     1 年 1 个月之前             24) #include "line-range.h"
>>>         58dbfa2e builtin/blame.c   (Eric Sunshine               9 个月之前                   25) #include "line-log.h"
>>>         cee7f245 builtin-pickaxe.c (Junio C Hamano              8 年前                         26)
>>>
>>> After applying this patch:
>>>
>>>         5817da01 builtin-blame.c   (Pierre Habouzit             6 年前                           21) #include "parse-options.h"
>>>         ffaf9cc0 builtin-blame.c   (Geoffrey Thomas             5 年前                           22) #include "utf8.h"
>>>         3b8a12e8 builtin/blame.c   (Axel Bonnet                 3 年 10 个月之前                 23) #include "userdiff.h"
>>>         25ed3412 builtin/blame.c   (Bo Yang                     1 年 1 个月之前                  24) #include "line-range.h"
>>>         58dbfa2e builtin/blame.c   (Eric Sunshine               9 个月之前                       25) #include "line-log.h"
>>>         cee7f245 builtin-pickaxe.c (Junio C Hamano              8 年前                           26)
>>
>>
>> The numbers 21..26 still do not look aligned, both in gmail raw
>> message view and gmane.
>
> Interesting.  In my GNUS/Emacs on a fixed-column terminal where an
> CJK occupies two display columns, they do look aligned, but in my
> Chrome showing news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/, they
> do look jagged.  When these lines shown in the browser get copied
> and pasted to gedit, they still look jagged, but after saving it to
> a file and catting it to the same fixed-column terminal, they are
> perfectly aligned.
>
> Font issues, I guess?