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Doesn't tabulate correctly with zero-width characters (Devanagari)

See original GitHub issue

This is how it renders

Name            Score
------------  -------
राष्ट्र परीक्षण    19.25
Test             0

versus

Name               Score
---------------  -------
Devanagari here    19.25
Test                0

How it should render:

Name            Score
------------  -------
राष्ट्र परीक्षण         19.25
Test             0

I have the extra widechars libs installed.

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Created 3 years ago
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Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Delta456commented, Jul 8, 2020

wcwidth doesn’t supports Devangari yet.

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siddhpantcommented, Mar 1, 2021

I think it’s just the problem of calculating visible length and formatting properly, probably the wcwidth devs would look into it better. HTML is not an option for me, so I use codeblocks to format it on the UX side (and also internally for docs).

Thank you for taking out your time!

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