is there any way at all to pad a line with spaces ($chr(32)) outside of the window editbox? I need to add single-space pads to strings of japanese for a proper alignment in a two-line context, and the fontset does not allow for the use of the non-breaking space (it's a big fat black block instead of nothing so that's no go).
as an example, it needs to be able to do for instance this
<line1> word
<line2> word word word word
there's a particular double byte code for japanese spaces (which render correctly) but that leaves a very nasty alignement if two word are of unequal length by a single twin-byte value. instead it would be perfect to simply add 1 space to the longer word and align the two words using half the width of multibyte characters.
problem is mirc uses $chr(32) internally for parameter tokenisation for passing to aliasses and functions, and I sort of need to get around that or this will just keep looking ugly =/
Last edited by Pomax; 18/11/03 11:32 PM.