Re: [BUG] [ox-odt] ODT export Chinese/Han script inserts unexpected spaces in each consecutive line

[Cantoraz Chou]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> Fixed, on bugfix.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=cd967ce00

Thanks for your fix!

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> P.S. As Chinese user, do you have other gotchas Org might need to
> address?

In my experience, most of weird troubles are related to the (1) language
habit or (2) mixed use of Ideographs and alphanumeric.

Eg. for (1).

The Org export option keyword `DATE' use a fixed built-in timestamp
format which is rarely used in Chinese. It's impossible to customize the
format only for exporting, without touching format in Org.

At present, I have to use a macro to format a Org timestamp to the
string, that used for `DATE' keyword.

It's best to provide a option/variable to set the timestamp format used
in exported doc.

Eg. for (2).

With `pangu-spacing' package installed, set
`pangu-spacing-real-insert-separtor' to nil. A well-chosen monospaced
font are also used to ensure one CJK character is alignment with two
Alphanumerics.

Think of following table:

#+begin_src org
| Alphanumeric | Ideograph | Symbol               | Mixed                    |
|--------------+-----------+----------------------+--------------------------|
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ，。、？！；：“”／‘’ | 1一B二c三α四             |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ，。、？！；：“”／‘’ | A一／二“三”四            |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ◉○🞛◇✿❀⚛✸     | ◉一○二🞛三◇四✿❀⚛✸ |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ▶▷✶⬢⬡☀☼       | ▶▷✶⬢⬡☀☼           |
#+end_src

The right border of `Mixed' column isn't aligned, because
`pangu-spacing' insert a space between Chinese and English in an
overlay. (Actual display result as follows)

#+begin_example
| Alphanumeric | Ideograph | Symbol               | Mixed                    |
|--------------+-----------+----------------------+--------------------------|
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ，。、？！；：“”／‘’ | 1 一 B 二 c 三α四             |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ，。、？！；：“”／‘’ | A 一／二“三”四            |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ◉○🞛◇✿❀⚛✸     | ◉一○二🞛三◇四✿❀⚛✸ |
| ABC αβγ 123  | 一二三四  | ▶▷✶⬢⬡☀☼       | ▶▷✶⬢⬡☀☼           |
#+end_example

And, if I move the point vertically by Up/Down key in `Symbol' or
`Mixed' column, the point shifts left or right. This has nothing to do
with `pangu-spacing', but probably because some symbols have variable
width in a font.

Usually, I'm not sure if these problems can be called bugs, or which
extensions are responsible of them. Fortunately, these problems are
non-fatal and tolerable generally.