Re: Enclosing text in a box

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 7:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 
wrote:


> > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:48:07 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> 
> Any character can pose such problems. It depends on the font you are
> using.

So what are people to do?  Basically it means that we cannot rely on "length" 
and 
"string-width".  Then the function are there for nothing.  Asking users to 
handle
such conditions would be too hard to do repeatedly.