Re: Width of Chinese Character in TortoiseMerge

On 01.04.2011 21:15, Garfield Yao wrote:
> 2011/4/1 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com <mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>>
>
> On 27.03.2011 05:44, Garfield Yao wrote:
> > Hi Developers,
> >
> > TortoiseMerge could not show cursor and the grey dot indicating the
> > space between the words correctly if there exists some Chinese
> > characters because the Chinese character is twice as wide as English
> > character.
> >
> > A snap of TortoiseMerge is attached.
> >
> > In the line 408:
> > 1) The cursor showed in the middle of the first Chinese character;
> > 2) The space located after the fifth Chinese Character, but the dot
> > showed in the right side of the third one.
> >
> > I guess it would happen in Japanese and Korean too.
>
> Could you zip up two files with such characters and send that to me so I
> can try and reproduce the problem here?
>
> That file is the Simplified Chinese po file of TSVN Doc. It's URL is:
> http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Languages/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/TortoiseDoc.po
> You can try the Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean po files:
> http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Languages/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/TortoiseDoc.po
> http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Languages/ja/LC_MESSAGES/TortoiseDoc.po
> http://tortoisesvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Languages/ko/LC_MESSAGES/TortoiseUI.po

The problem with those chars is that they don't have a fixed width,
they're wider than the other chars. TMerge depends on fixed width fonts
where all chars have the same width.
Changing that would require a major rewrite, and would also make TMerge
a *lot* slower than it is now.

Stefan

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