From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:24:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301252224.h0PMOXBR001501@beta.mvs.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84of65cz3l.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de)
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:17:50 +0100, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) wrote:
>
> I thought it was discussed and it was agreed to display them as
> graphic? But I agree that it is misleading.
>
> I think the idea was that people who use eight-bit locales expect
> things to be displayed using that charset -- so if a random byte
> comes along, and it happens to match the code for ה in that locale,
> then display that byte as ה. Regardless of whether the random byte
> is really known to be in iso-8859-1 encoding. So Emacs would match
> the behavior of /bin/cat in this respect.
I agree. For persons in the ISO-8859-x languages, the 8 bit graphics
is much better than the octal representation. It's like the emails in
quoted-printable are better than base64 - You can read the former as
text even if some characters are non-readable, the latter must be
decoded (correctly!) before it can be read.
Ehud.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-24 13:38 display table for eight-bit-graphic Dave Love
2003-01-25 1:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-25 10:17 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-25 22:24 ` Ehud Karni [this message]
2003-01-26 14:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-26 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 2:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-29 0:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-29 11:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-03 18:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-03 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-18 7:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-19 8:48 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-19 10:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-21 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-03 14:28 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:29 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:32 ` Dave Love
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