From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:41:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8011-Mon03Mar2003224122+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18pvAD-0004ru-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:59:49 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:59:49 -0500
>
> It sounds like you're suggesting that we eliminate the display
> table feature.
>
> Perhaps the display table is obsolete as a means of displaying
> non-ASCII characters, assuming we set up for proper conversion
> to unibyte according to the language in use. But aren't display
> tables used for other things too?
FWIW, the DOS port (see term/internal.el) and Dave's latin-disp.el use
the display tables to display non-ASCII characters on character
terminals that don't support such characters.
So I think this is an important feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-03 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <rzqbs263bxm.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
2003-01-25 1:16 ` display table for eight-bit-graphic Kenichi Handa
2003-01-25 10:17 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-25 22:24 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-26 14:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-26 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 2:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-29 0:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-29 11:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-03 18:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-03 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-03-18 7:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-19 8:48 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-19 10:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-21 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-03 14:28 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:29 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:32 ` Dave Love
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