Re: Enclosing text in a box

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 4:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 
wrote:


> > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> > > > thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> > > > what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
> > > 
> > > Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?
> > 
> > The premise seems to be that "string-width" returns it.
> 
> 
> Obviously, sane code should round the value up, not use it literally.
> 
> > I would like to have the ability to pass unicode characters.
> 
> 
> This has nothing to do with Unicode.

I do not know whether the unicode characters pose a problem with fractional 
sizes.