From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dashes and non-breaking spaces Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:07:29 +0900 Message-ID: References: <200412281520.49126.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <87brc4xwai.fsf@jurta.org> <87u0pntjps.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105568634 5968 80.91.229.6 (12 Jan 2005 22:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , Karl Eichwalder , emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 12 23:23:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Coqty-0003b4-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 23:23:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cor5a-0004gg-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:35:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CoqyB-0002r6-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:28:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Coqxu-0002ib-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:27:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Coqxn-0002bA-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.203] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CoqeI-00010e-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:07:30 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 63so115825wri for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=pU20IKbBtfnGO5NskPWbaGb6TH136qCpmg9gnwX6fdN88M4rdV6raBB1UlDf7AeWmdW7AHI5gXaligO7DbtGbHa69wC4nsNceyij9r2rpr4ktUVjDTYGLN5pcZh251HAy1x3BTUBN41cpxLCaR8Mcm9Eztdti89EtYJ71aEzc/Q= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.29 with SMTP id 29mr149195wrq; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.32 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:07:29 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32174 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32174 On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:58:46 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Agreed for escape sequences in the 0-31 and 128-255 regions. > But not for the "\ " and "\-" which seems to be often used in email > that is properly labelled (at least the ones written in French). > > I.e. agreed for the ones for which there is no accepted "normal" way to > display them, but not for the ones for which there is a well-defined way > they *should* be displayed. Sure -- but I thought the plan was to have a variable or use display-table tweaks to simply display those characters as normal " " and "-" in such contexts. I.e. when they're displayed as "escape characters", there's no reason to treat them differently from other escapes. -Miles