From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:57 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200303191058.TAA29732@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200301270220.LAA14193@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048071652 27501 80.91.224.249 (19 Mar 2003 11:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 19 12:00:51 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vbJJ-00078j-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:00:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18vbK2-0001Lk-00 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:01:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vbI7-0007qM-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vbHo-0007oo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:59:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vbHm-0007iH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vbHk-0007ez-00; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 05:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h2JAww906536; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:58 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h2JAwwA08486; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:58 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id TAA29732; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:57 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 19 Mar 2003 03:48:58 -0500) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: d.love@dl.ac.uk X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12464 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12464 In article , Richard Stallman writes: > I think the display table is obsolete only as a means of > displaying 8-bit characaters in unibyte buffer and > eight-bit-control/graphic characters. > That seems like a surprising assertion to me. Is it because > you think people would use a terminal coding system instead? No. In unibyte buffer, by setting unibyte-display-via-language-environment to non-nil, 8-bit characters are converted to multibyte characters by unibyte-char-to-multibyte on displaying. The merit of this is that when a user changes the language environment, 8-bit characters are displayed correctly based on the current language environment. The demerit may be that unibyte users don't want such a nifty feature, but want to stick to the font he specified. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org