Re: strange char in whitespace-display-mappings

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, July 22, 2012 6:39:02 AM UTC-7, Jason Rumney wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 July 2012 06:34:15 UTC+8, Xah Lee  wrote:
> > in whitespace-mode, there's this default value for whitespace-display-mappings :
> > 
> > ((space-mark 32 [183] [46])
> >  (space-mark 160 [164] [95])
> >  (space-mark 2208 [2212] [95])
> >  (space-mark 2336 [2340] [95])
> >  (space-mark 3616 [3620] [95])
> >  (space-mark 3872 [3876] [95])
> >  (newline-mark 10 [36 10])
> >  (tab-mark 9 [187 9] [92 9])
> > )
> > 
> > many of the code points are chars from Thai, Tibetan, Devanagari, and including invalid unicode code points. But they are not whitespaces. (i deciphered them here with glyph display http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html )
> > 
> > anyone know what these are?
> 
> It looks like a bug. Probably the file has not been updated since the internal encoding for Emacs was changed from emacs-mule to utf-8-emacs.

thanks Jason.

Anyone wants to file a bug report?

 Xah