From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:27:47 +0000 Message-ID: <20091119212747.GH1314@muc.de> References: <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> <874ooq8xay.fsf@wanchan.jasonrumney.net> <20091119141852.GC1720@muc.de> <20091119155848.GB1314@muc.de> <87aayiihe9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20091119180848.GE1314@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258665837 5350 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 21:23:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 22:23:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NBETl-0002T9-Jk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:23:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBETl-00066v-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:23:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBESo-0005hG-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBESj-0005eW-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42030 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBESj-0005eQ-NJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:45 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:2033 helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBESh-0005mj-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 90701 invoked by uid 3782); 19 Nov 2009 21:22:41 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E51409.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.20.9]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 6135 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 2009 21:27:47 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117301 Archived-At: Hi, Stefan! On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:05:59PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > OK. Surely displaying it as "\361" is a bug? Should it not display as > > "\17777761". If it did, it would have saved half of my ranting. > Hmm.. I lost you here. How would it have helped you? I wouldn't have wasted an hour trying to sort out what was apparently wrong with the coding systems. > Stefan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).