Cursor alignment off with some Unicode characters

[tjrobinson]

When editing the following markdown, the cursor alignment isn't correct making typing/selection difficult:

t❌✔t D123456❌✔5

Windows is scaled at 100% on a 2560x1440 resolution, running Windows 10 Creators Update.

[RickStrahl]

Thanks Tom.

Not sure if that'll be possible. The editor (Ace Editor) is very finicky about using fixed width fonts as it has to calculate character spacing based on known widths for the active font.

While that may not be possible you can probably use the Emojii picker to get the right icons into your text though.

[tjrobinson]

Ah, that's a shame. It's not a problem most of the time but we've got one page on our wiki with a lot of emojis on it :)

And yes, I really should get round to registering my copy soon.

[RickStrahl]

I'll forward this to the Ace repro and see what they have to say - I'm pretty sure this is not doable as they rely on fixed width characters, but worth the question. I'll forward whatever comes back here. I'll leave this open in the meantime.

[RickStrahl]

Looks like there are several issues out on this, but it hasn't really made any progress. There are patches that have been in process for a couple of years. This may get fixed in the future but not likely any time soon. :-(

[RickStrahl]

As mentioned there are several threads open on this on the Ace Forum and it looks like this unfortunately won't get fixed any time soon since it requires some major reworking of the editor internals.

Here's one of the discussions:
ajaxorg/ace#1153

Closing issue for now since this is not likely to get resolved.