From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:12:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83aafztyhy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lizku01h.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrj390v1.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302351267 9060 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2011 12:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 12:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?xaB0xJtww6FuIE7Em21lYw==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 14:14:22 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8X3V-0008Tn-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8X3V-00046u-05 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44859 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8X3N-00045u-Gd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:14:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8X3M-0002xJ-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:50853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8X3M-0002ww-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 08:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJD00000WKC1300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:14:09 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.239.68]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJD00L18WNKTSE0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:14:09 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87wrj390v1.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:138325 Archived-At: > From: =C5=A0t=C4=9Bp=C3=A1n N=C4=9Bmec > Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:26:42 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > tabulated-list-init-header assumes without testing that u+25b2 an= d > > u+25bc will be displayed as themselves. But with various values = of > > glyphless-char-display-control, this may not be true. Also, on t= ext > > terminals these characters generally cannot be displayed, which m= akes > ^^^^^^^^^ > 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 ca= n 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).