Re: [O] Bug: Pressing TAB in table cell with CJK characters sometimes destroys proper column alignment [8.2.10 (8.2.10-dist @ /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/org-mode/)]

[Grant Rettke]

Is there a task defined for this work?

I am interested in this too.
Grant Rettke
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eugen Dueck <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In a simple org-table like the following:
>>
>> | aaaa |   |
>> | 漢   |   |
>>
>> when pressing the TAB key in the bottom left cell, one space character
>> is removed from that cell and the table thus looks like
>>
>> | aaaa |   |
>> | 漢  |   |
>>
>> Pressing TAB again in that cell removes another space character
>>
>> | aaaa |   |
>> | 漢 |   |
>>
>> I can repeat this until only one space remains between the Japanese
>> character and the column separator to its right.
>>
>> When working on a table, navigating via TAB, over time all the CJK
>> cells that I TABbed out of - or Shift-TABbed out of - get affected,
>> messing up the overall table layout. Once I press C-c C-c, the
>> formatting of the whole table gets restored, until my next TAB, but it
>> would of course be nice if TABs didn't destroy it in the first place.
>>
>> Btw, org-table rocks and I use it all the time - and I hope to be able
>> to use it with Japanese characters as well.
>
> A while ago I spent some time making this work as well as possible for
> double-width glyphs, but I also noticed that sometime recently it's gone
> back to the old behavior. I can look into it again, but work is
> encroaching and it might take me a little time...
>
>