diff --git a/evennia/utils/evtable.py b/evennia/utils/evtable.py
index b99fb24866..30a2d01a7e 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/evtable.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/evtable.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ table string.
 #from textwrap import wrap
 from textwrap import TextWrapper
 from copy import deepcopy, copy
-from evennia.utils.utils import to_unicode
+from evennia.utils.utils import to_unicode, m_len
 from evennia.utils.ansi import ANSIString
 
 def _to_ansi(obj):
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ class ANSITextWrapper(TextWrapper):
                 indent = self.initial_indent
 
             # Maximum width for this line.
-            width = self.width - len(indent)
+            width = self.width - m_len(indent)
+            print "width:", width
 
             # First chunk on line is whitespace -- drop it, unless this
             # is the very beginning of the text (ie. no lines started yet).
@@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ class ANSITextWrapper(TextWrapper):
                 del chunks[-1]
 
             while chunks:
-                l = len(chunks[-1])
+                l = m_len(chunks[-1])
 
                 # Can at least squeeze this chunk onto the current line.
                 if cur_len + l <= width:
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ class ANSITextWrapper(TextWrapper):
 
             # The current line is full, and the next chunk is too big to
             # fit on *any* line (not just this one).
-            if chunks and len(chunks[-1]) > width:
+            if chunks and m_len(chunks[-1]) > width:
                 self._handle_long_word(chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width)
 
             # If the last chunk on this line is all whitespace, drop it.
@@ -423,7 +424,7 @@ class EvCell(object):
 
         #self.data = self._split_lines(unicode(data))
         self.data = self._split_lines(_to_ansi(data))
-        self.raw_width = max(len(line) for line in self.data)
+        self.raw_width = max(m_len(line) for line in self.data)
         self.raw_height = len(self.data)
 
         # this is extra trimming required for cels in the middle of a table only
@@ -458,9 +459,9 @@ class EvCell(object):
             width (int): The width to crop `text` to.
 
         """
-        if len(text) > width:
+        if m_len(text) > width:
             crop_string = self.crop_string
-            return text[:width-len(crop_string)] + crop_string
+            return text[:width-m_len(crop_string)] + crop_string
         return text
 
     def _reformat(self):
@@ -500,7 +501,7 @@ class EvCell(object):
         width = self.width
         adjusted_data = []
         for line in data:
-            if 0 < width < len(line):
+            if 0 < width < m_len(line):
                 # replace_whitespace=False, expand_tabs=False is a
                 # fix for ANSIString not supporting expand_tabs/translate
                 adjusted_data.extend([ANSIString(part + ANSIString("{n"))
@@ -535,7 +536,7 @@ class EvCell(object):
             text (str): Centered text.
 
         """
-        excess = width - len(text)
+        excess = width - m_len(text)
         if excess <= 0:
             return text
         if excess % 2:
@@ -695,7 +696,7 @@ class EvCell(object):
             natural_width (int): Width of cell.
 
         """
-        return len(self.formatted[0]) #if self.formatted else 0
+        return m_len(self.formatted[0]) #if self.formatted else 0
 
     def replace_data(self, data, **kwargs):
         """
@@ -711,7 +712,7 @@ class EvCell(object):
         """
         #self.data = self._split_lines(unicode(data))
         self.data = self._split_lines(_to_ansi(data))
-        self.raw_width = max(len(line) for line in self.data)
+        self.raw_width = max(m_len(line) for line in self.data)
         self.raw_height = len(self.data)
         self.reformat(**kwargs)