[PD] What's the easiest way to cut various symbols to a fixed length?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 18:39 +0100, tim vets wrote:
> how about [list fromsymbol], [list split] and [list tosymbol]?

This works as long as your characters are strictly ASCII. You get
"interesting" results when cutting in the middle of an multi-byte
unicode character. When the left-hand part of [list split] contains
multi-byte unicode characters, the displayed string is shorter than
what you intended.

Roman
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