Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: `set-locale-environment' bug]

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> I've just added:
>     (or standard-display-table
>         (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))
> to all such functions that modify standard-display-table.

Thanks.

>> By the way, the node "(elisp)Active Display Table" states that the
>> default value for `standard-display-table' is nil.
>
> Right.  How about writing the info as below?
>
> This variable's value is the default display table, used whenever a
> window has no display table and neither does the buffer displayed in
> that window.  This variable is usually @code{nil}, but set to a
> proper display table when Emacs is started in such locales that use
> a single byte character set (e.g. en_US.iso88591).

I'm still a bit confused about _why_ the display table should be
non-nil in a single byte locale.

8bit characters like æøå display just fine for me if
`standard-display-table' is nil (both in X and on a console).

-- 
Cheers,
Jesper Harder