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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: 35230@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35230: char-displayable-p return code is conflictingly documented
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 16:49:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wok061hi.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

(This comes as a result of the stackexchange question at
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/48810)

char-displayable-p docstring says

     Return non-nil if we should be able to display CHAR.

The elisp manual says something subtly different:

     This function returns ‘t’ if Emacs ought to be able to display
     CHAR.  More precisely, if the selected frame’s fontset has a font
     to display the character set that CHAR belongs to.

The function itself is more in line with the docstring:

(char-displayable-p #xE01EF) => unicode

since I donʼt have a font with a glyph for that character, so it ends
up displayed as a box with the unicode code point inside it. The code
that results in 'unicode has the comment 	     

    ;; On a text terminal without glyph codes, CHAR is displayable
    ;; if the coding system for the terminal can encode it.

but Iʼm very much on a graphical terminal here, not a text terminal.

For comparison, when I do have a font:

(char-displayable-p #x2502) => <font-object
"-*-Menlo-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">

The question is: what should the docstring/manual say? The original
intent of char-displayable-p seems to be as a wrapper around
internal-char-font to allow asking "do I have a glyph for this
character", but thatʼs not what it does today.

Robert





             reply	other threads:[~2019-04-11 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 14:49 Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-04-12 12:51 ` bug#35230: char-displayable-p return code is conflictingly documented Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-14  9:51   ` Robert Pluim
2019-04-14 14:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 15:09       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-11  1:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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