From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200 Message-ID: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253804849 11968 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2009 15:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:07:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 24 17:07:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MqpuE-0004eE-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MqpuD-000213-Je for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mqpu8-0001xt-57 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mqpu3-0001oL-3H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54097 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mqpu2-0001o2-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:48984) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mqpu2-00040d-EK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:38 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n8OF6O5J021317 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8OF6OYp024888; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8OF6OLj024885; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200 X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115581 Archived-At: Is the following a feature or a bug? $ emacs -Q M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET C-q 240 RET C-q 255 RET The characters are displayed as "_-" (approximately). Shouldn't they be displayed as "\240\255", considering that these are raw bytes with no specific meaning? Ulrich