From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-27 60c84ad: ; * etc/TODO: Fix last change. Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:36:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhczxa2t.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200229173124.11831.98476@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20200229173125.E2D3A21167@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="83612"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 02 12:37:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jNk-000Lfh-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:37:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jNj-0000ql-R7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:37:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jNA-0008JJ-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jN9-0001Kt-KH; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2258 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1j8jN9-00050F-4W; Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:36:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:40:35 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:245155 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:40:35 +0100 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > >>>>> On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:31:25 -0500 (EST), eliz@gnu.org (Eli Zaretskii) said: > > Eli> Emacs by default displays the Variation Selector (VS) codepoints not > Eli> -composed with base characters as thin 1-pixel space glyphs. The > Eli> -Unicode FAQ says that if variation sequences cannot be supported, the > Eli> -VS characters should not be shown, leaving just the base character of > Eli> -the sequence visible. This could be handled via > Eli> -glyphless-char-display, by changing the entries for VS codepoints to > Eli> -'zero-width'. > Eli> +composed with base characters as hex codes in a box. The Unicode FAQ > Eli> +says that if variation sequences cannot be supported, the VS > Eli> +characters should not be shown, leaving just the base character of the > Eli> +sequence visible. This could be handled via glyphless-char-display, > Eli> +by changing the entries for VS codepoints to 'zero-width'. Or we > Eli> +could display them as a thin 1-pixel space, as we do with format > Eli> +control characters, by using 'thin-space' there. > > I have emacs set up to show a 1-pixel space, since I hate hidden > control characters. I think it would be a better default than a > hex-box or hiding them. Then maybe this TODO item is for you ;-)