Re: Unicode combining characters

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 5/25/21 1:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 21:26:44 +0530
>>
>> Hindi Devanagari script has lot of unicode combining characters which 
>> results in misalignment in a
>> rectangular overlay for constant number of characters (screenshot ) 
>> What would be a recommended way to tackle this in Emacs?
> 
> Use align-to 'space' display spec and/or the window-text-pixel-size
> function, which will account for the actual size of the text on
> display. 

Will this work? The misaligned specs are already part of a replacing dipsplay 
spec, so the additional align-to would be ignored, no?

(IIRC, there is no way to say "replace this text by this string followed by 
this specified space; it's one or the other, right?)