From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:00:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19132.34451.565451.857731@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833a6bv30o.fsf@gnu.org>
>>>>> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> $ 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?
> There are no ``raw bytes'' in a unibyte buffer. Every byte there is
> interpreted as a character, and shown as such. This is the main
> feature of unibyte buffers; otherwise, who'd want them?
Different question then: Why are all other characters in the range from
#x80 to #xff shown in the backslash-escaped notation, #xa0 and #xad
being the only exceptions?
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-25 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-24 15:06 Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Ulrich Mueller
2009-09-25 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25 9:00 ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2009-09-25 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28 1:10 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-28 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28 11:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-28 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28 22:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-29 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 2:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-29 3:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29 7:52 ` Kenichi Handa
[not found] ` <831vljpm0v.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-10-05 0:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-25 9:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-25 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-26 8:26 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-09-25 9:44 ` Andreas Schwab
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