tboegi@web.de writes:

The choosen solution is to split code in diff.c like this

strbuf_addf(&out, "%-*s", len, name);

into 2 calls, like this:

strbuf_addf(&out, "%s", name);
if (len > utf8_strwidth(name))
    strbuf_addchars(&out, ' ', len - utf8_strwidth(name));

Makes sense.  Is utf8_strwidth(name) cheap enough that we can call
it twice in a row on the same string casually, or should we avoid it
with a new variable?

It might be worth doing a helper function, even?

	static inline strbuf_pad(struct strbuf *out, const char *s, size_t width)
	{
		size_t w = utf8_strwidth(s);

		strbuf_addstr(out, s);
		if (w < width)
			strbuf_addchars(out, ' ', width - w);
	}

Other than that, sounds very sensible.