* bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition
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@ 2012-03-23 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-30 23:13 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-03-23 10:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kenichi Handa; +Cc: 11072
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0900
>
> In article <83fwd0wnwl.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Btw, there's some strange problem in displaying one label of the
> > hebrew-biblical-tiro input method: the character u+05ba (inserted by
> > Shift-5 key) is displayed as a blank rectangle. It looks like my
> > fonts have no glyph for this character, but then why don't we display
> > this like any other glyphless character: as a hex code inside a small
> > rectangle? That's what I get if I insert this character into a
> > buffer, but somehow the way we display it in the keyboard layout (and
> > in the "C-u C-x =" display under "decomposition") behaves differently.
> > Why is that?
>
> As that character is a non-spacing modifier, we display it
> with a static composition, and a glyph in a static
> composition are displayed by a blank rectangle if no font is
> available. This is because a hex code makes the resulting
> display of composition (several glyphs may occupy a single
> column) unreadable.
>
> It may be possible to change the current code to use a hex
> code displaying if a composition contains just one glyph and
> that glyph has no font, but it may be for 24.2.
So this bug will wait for after Emacs 24.1 release to be fixed.
Thanks.
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* bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition
2012-03-23 10:12 ` bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-10-30 23:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-31 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2019-10-30 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: 11072, Kenichi Handa
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
>> Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0900
>>
>> In article <83fwd0wnwl.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Btw, there's some strange problem in displaying one label of the
>> > hebrew-biblical-tiro input method: the character u+05ba (inserted by
>> > Shift-5 key) is displayed as a blank rectangle. It looks like my
>> > fonts have no glyph for this character, but then why don't we display
>> > this like any other glyphless character: as a hex code inside a small
>> > rectangle? That's what I get if I insert this character into a
>> > buffer, but somehow the way we display it in the keyboard layout (and
>> > in the "C-u C-x =" display under "decomposition") behaves differently.
>> > Why is that?
>>
>> As that character is a non-spacing modifier, we display it
>> with a static composition, and a glyph in a static
>> composition are displayed by a blank rectangle if no font is
>> available. This is because a hex code makes the resulting
>> display of composition (several glyphs may occupy a single
>> column) unreadable.
>>
>> It may be possible to change the current code to use a hex
>> code displaying if a composition contains just one glyph and
>> that glyph has no font, but it may be for 24.2.
>
> So this bug will wait for after Emacs 24.1 release to be fixed.
>
> Thanks.
Hi Eli,
No update on this bug in 7 years. Has this been fixed in the
intervening time?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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* bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition
2019-10-30 23:13 ` Stefan Kangas
@ 2019-10-31 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-10-31 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: 11072-done, handa
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>, 11072@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:13:16 +0100
>
> >> As that character is a non-spacing modifier, we display it
> >> with a static composition, and a glyph in a static
> >> composition are displayed by a blank rectangle if no font is
> >> available. This is because a hex code makes the resulting
> >> display of composition (several glyphs may occupy a single
> >> column) unreadable.
> >>
> >> It may be possible to change the current code to use a hex
> >> code displaying if a composition contains just one glyph and
> >> that glyph has no font, but it may be for 24.2.
> >
> > So this bug will wait for after Emacs 24.1 release to be fixed.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi Eli,
>
> No update on this bug in 7 years. Has this been fixed in the
> intervening time?
It seems so: I now see a box with a hex code.
Closing.
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