From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:12:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aafztyhy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrj390v1.fsf@gmail.com>
> From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>
> Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:26:42 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > tabulated-list-init-header assumes without testing that u+25b2 and
> > u+25bc will be displayed as themselves. But with various values of
> > glyphless-char-display-control, this may not be true. Also, on text
> > terminals these characters generally cannot be displayed, which makes
> ^^^^^^^^^
> I wonder what your meant by this word?
"Generally" as in "for any terminal encoding but one".
> Both characters display fine for me in urxvt and xterm, and even in
> the linux console (displayed as up/down arrows instead of triangles)
> on a Debian system. Just a data point.
That's exactly the _only_ terminal encoding where these characters can
be displayed correctly, and even then assuming that the terminal can
display them. Displaying them as an up and down arrow is just an
emulation (and not a faithful one at that, in this case, if you ask
me).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-09 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 17:26 tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 10:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-04-09 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-09 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-09 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-08 17:17 Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 18:27 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-08 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 19:26 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-10 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 15:47 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 18:11 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 17:31 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 18:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 22:31 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-12 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-12 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 5:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-04-12 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 16:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-12 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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