From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Usage of standard-display-table in MSDOS
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:13:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837hjcm9cw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tl7sk202sbz.fsf@m17n.org>
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:44:16 +0900
>
> > "Display characters in the range L to H literally."
>
> > The "literally" part is no longer true, is it?
>
> What's the meaning of "literally" when a display table
> element is [#xA0]?
It means that a literal byte 0xA0 is sent to the terminal.
> Before Emacs 23, the character #xA0 represents the byte
> 0xA0. But now it is a character representing a Unicode
> character U+00A0, and #x3FFFA0 is the character representing
> the byte 0xA0.
>
> And, to "display characters literally", we have been encoded
> characters by the terminal coding system. Before Emacs 23,
> the encoded result of #xA0 is always the byte 0xA0, but now
> it depends on the terminal coding system.
Which means, AFAIU, that "literally" is no longer possible. At least
in the case of a multibyte buffer.
What about a unibyte buffer, though? How do we display the characters
there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-27 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-23 12:44 Usage of standard-display-table in MSDOS Kenichi Handa
2010-08-24 5:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-08-24 11:13 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-24 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-25 13:04 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-25 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-26 15:26 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-26 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-27 13:35 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-27 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-27 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-27 11:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-27 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-08-28 4:18 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-28 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-30 2:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-30 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-01 3:21 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-01 9:20 ` Ehud Karni
2010-09-01 23:33 ` Ehud Karni
2010-09-02 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-02 5:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-04 22:54 ` Ehud Karni
2010-09-06 1:30 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-02 12:32 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-04 23:32 ` Ehud Karni
2010-09-05 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-06 5:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-08-29 10:16 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-29 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-29 11:49 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-29 13:06 ` Ehud Karni
2010-08-29 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-29 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-07 21:11 ` Ehud Karni
2010-09-09 11:57 ` Kenichi Handa
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