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: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:59:32 +0300 Message-ID: <83ipuotvqj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mxk0u0g7.fsf@gnu.org> <874o68zjhi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83k4f4twam.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302289491 26326 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 19:04:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:04:51 +0000 (UTC) To: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 21:04:45 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 1Q8Gz6-00088K-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:04:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50648 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8Gz3-0000Zq-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54285 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8Gw5-0007na-O2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8Gw4-0002f0-LX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8Gw4-0002eJ-AO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:01:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJC00D00KLKY800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:01:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.239.68]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJC00D0BKUKHPA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:01:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <83k4f4twam.fsf@gnu.org> 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:138318 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:47:29 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: Chong Yidong > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:37 -0400 > > > > We can probably use "^" and "v" when the unicode glyphs cannot be > > displayed, but it sure would be nice to the glyphs whereever possible. > > Any idea how to go about checking this? > > I think you will find glyphless-char-display (which is a char-table) > useful. Also this: (unencodable-char-position 0 1 (terminal-coding-system) nil (string CHARACTER)) will tell you whether CHARACTER can be safely encoded for the selected frame's terminal.