From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:44:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253871916 3941 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 09:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:45:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 11:45:09 2009 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 4.50) id 1Mr7MT-0002Tq-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:45:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7MS-00052Y-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7MG-00052L-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7MC-00050x-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45428 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr7MB-00050u-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37758) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr7MA-0002l5-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8P9iY7e020278; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from hase.home (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8P9iWwD029051; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:44:33 -0400 X-Yow: Either CONFESS now or we go to ``PEOPLE'S COURT''!! In-Reply-To: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.21 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115609 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller writes: > Is the following a feature or a bug? > > $ emacs -Q > M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET C-q 240 RET C-q 255 RET > > The characters are displayed as "_-" (approximately). > > Shouldn't they be displayed as "\240\255", considering that these are > raw bytes with no specific meaning? See nobreak-char-display. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."