From 1e3c578eebc854029a7bd6d67dd20a67e3edc38b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: FotiadisM <47476275+FotiadisM@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:05:44 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: count unicode codepoints instead of bytes (#1445)

---
 lua/nvim-tree/view.lua | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lua/nvim-tree/view.lua b/lua/nvim-tree/view.lua
index 6353dbcd..c76fc914 100644
--- a/lua/nvim-tree/view.lua
+++ b/lua/nvim-tree/view.lua
@@ -211,8 +211,9 @@ local function grow()
   local lines = vim.api.nvim_buf_get_lines(M.get_bufnr(), starts_at, -1, false)
   local max_length = M.View.initial_width
   for _, l in pairs(lines) do
-    if max_length < #l then
-      max_length = #l
+    local count = vim.fn.strchars(l) + 3 -- plus some padding
+    if max_length < count then
+      max_length = count
     end
   end
   M.resize(max_length)