From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 20:15:02 +0000   
   bart  wrote:   
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   > This looks like a solution for a fixed-pitch font. I get this output   
   > for a Windows console display (with - used for space):   
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   > hello---strlen: 5  utf8 display width: 5   
   > Café----strlen: 5  utf8 display width: 4   
      
   It sounds as a luck. é in your text just happened to be encoded as   
   U+00E9. What if it was encoded as U+0065,U+00B4 ? (Hopefully, I got the   
   correct code, I can't really distinguish between similar diacritics).   
      
      
   > 漢字----strlen: 6  utf8 display width: 4   
   > ✓-------strlen: 3  utf8 display width: 1   
   > 🙂------strlen: 4  utf8 display width: 2   
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   > I was hoping this would be lined up, but already, in a Thunderbird   
   > edit Window, the last lines aren't lined up properly.   
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   > Same problem with Notepad (fixed pitch) and LibreOffice (fixed pitch).   
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   > It only looks alright in Windows and WSL consoles/terminals. But   
   > maybe that's all that's needed.   
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