[mew-int 3109] Re: Mangled summary line

Christophe TROESTLER <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:01:24 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.mew.general
Organization	Universite de Mons (http://math.umons.ac.be/anum/)
Message-ID	<20120805.230124.41324189731563435.Christophe.Troestler@umons.ac.be>

On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 01:13:18 +0200, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:27:37 +0200 (CEST), Christophe TROESTLER wrote:
> > 
> > The attached mail¹ displays a incorrectly aligned summary line.  
> > 
> > In Emacs 23, it is due to the fact that the font is of variable width
> > and the number of chars do not accurately represent the width.
> > Annoying but readable — not sure what kind of facilities exist in
> > Emacs to go around that.  In Emacs 24, the summary line looks more
> > mangled.
> 
> The problem in Emacs 24 comes from the new bidirectional support (and
> the name as well as the subject of the sent message are read from
> right to left).

A workaround is

(add-hook 'mew-summary-mode-hook
	  #'(lambda()
	      (if (boundp 'bidi-display-reordering)
		  (setq bidi-display-reordering nil))))

(Still remain the alignment part...)

Best,
C.