Re: Display of no break spaces

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 03.01.2013 um 14:16 schrieb Pascal Quesseveur:

> I don't understand why the no break space is displayed using link
> face.

Because it's fontified with that property.

> What can I do to change the way it is displayed?

Use a plain text buffer to get rid of fontification or switch that off (launch GNU Emacs with -Q)! You can also switch to a font that has U+00A0 defined or create a fontset in which this character is defined as coming from a font with NO-BREAK SPACE.

I get, for example, in X11:

	             position: 206 of 6832 (3%), column: 0
	            character:   (displayed as  ) (codepoint 160, #o240, #xa0)
	    preferred charset: iso-8859-1 (Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1))
	code point in charset: 0xA0
	               syntax: . 	which means: punctuation
	             category: .:Base, b:Arabic, j:Japanese, l:Latin
	          buffer code: #xC2 #xA0
	            file code: #xA0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-unix)
	              display: by this font (glyph code)
	    xft:-b&h-Lucida Sans Typewriter-normal-normal-normal-*-10-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#xAC)
	       hardcoded face: nobreak-space
	
	Character code properties: customize what to show
	  name: NO-BREAK SPACE
	  old-name: NON-BREAKING SPACE
	  general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
	  decomposition: (noBreak 32) (noBreak ' ')
	
	There are text properties here:
	  charset              iso-8859-1


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