From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: `set-locale-environment' bug] Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:21:59 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310280714.QAA05836@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067351245 348 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 14:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 15:27:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEUoc-0004rM-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEUoc-0004tY-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:27:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEUmc-00053H-61 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEUlP-0004jd-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:24:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEUki-0004bY-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.162.153.3] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEUkh-0004ZL-SK; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:23:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.215.224.213] (0xc3d7e0d5.esnxr4.ras.tele.dk [195.215.224.213]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AC55EE2E8; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:23:04 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-Reply-To: <200310280714.QAA05836@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2003 16:14:53 +0900 (JST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17500 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17500 Kenichi Handa 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 =E6=F8=E5 display just fine for me if `standard-display-table' is nil (both in X and on a console). --=20 Cheers, Jesper Harder