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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gazally@runbox.com, 30405@debbugs.gnu.org,
	npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:31:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78c6e835-d516-3e40-37d1-2486ed304019@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <836072yo6z.fsf@gnu.org>

On 02/12/2018 11:59 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> unibyte-display-via-language-environment
> explicitly requests display of raw bytes as Latin-1 characters, and it
> requests that everywhere, including the echo area and whatnot.

That's not how Emacs works, at least not in my experience. For example, 
on current emacs-26:

    emacs -Q
    M-x set-variable RET unibyte-display-via-language-environment RET t RET
    (defun foo ()
      (interactive)
      (message "cannot \xA2\u00A2")) C-j
    M-x foo RET

This displays "\242¢", not "¢¢".

No doubt this isn't documented as well as it should be, but from looking 
at the source code get_next_display_element it's clear that 
unibyte-display-via-language-environment does not simply display every 
raw byte as a Latin-1 character; instead, the code also takes context 
into account, and if the context is multibyte then 
unibyte-display-via-language-environment is ignored. Since the echo 
area's context is text and not binary data, the display of raw bytes in 
the echo area should be unaffected by 
unibyte-display-via-language-environment.






  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 21:13 bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message Gemini Lasswell
2018-02-09 23:04 ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  0:10   ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  0:29     ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  8:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 23:34       ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-11  3:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11  3:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11  5:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10  3:07   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-10  8:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 14:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2018-02-10 16:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 18:57       ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-10 21:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 17:26           ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-11 18:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 18:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 20:36                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 18:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 19:34                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 19:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 20:31                         ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-02-13  5:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-13 17:43                             ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-13 19:58                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-17 12:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 21:30         ` Richard Stallman

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