Cats are big

[callumacrae]

Cats take up twice the width of a normal character.

I'd suggest padding the string with half a cat, instead.

[sindresorhus]

I'd suggest padding the string with half a cat, instead.

Are you sure you want that? 😜

[mk-pmb]

Well, the Readme states

Padding cats are truncated if they exceed length.

which contradicts the example:

catPad('Meow', 6);
//=> '🐈🐈Meow'

because

'🐈🐈Meow'.length === 8

I'd say let's use UCS-2 characters for the length, and in the odd case, prefer the front half of the cat so it can still purr and make funny faces.

[sindresorhus]

What if we used half an avocado when it's half? → 🥑

[mk-pmb]

My Unicode catalog's avocado uses 2 UCS-2 characters so that won't help. :-(

[sindresorhus]

const cats = new String('🐈🐈Meow');
Object.defineProperty(cats, 'meowlength', {value: 6});

cats.meowlength === 6;
//=> true

[unitof]

This is preventing me from using this in production. Is there a fix yet?

[mk-pmb]

This is preventing me from using this in production. Is there a fix yet?

My apologies for the continuing lack of progress with this severe malfunction.
I summoned my emergency advisors panel today, and the expert cats seemed to almost have reached a consensus for using U+264C leo (♌) as a first stage workaround. Unfortunately, they then discovered U+2653 pisces (♓) and adjourned the meeting to visit the nearby creek.