From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:31:51 +0300 Message-ID: <833a6bv30o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253867646 22718 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 08:34:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 10:33:59 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 1Mr6FZ-0005Id-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:33:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr6FZ-0004X2-2u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr6FT-0004WY-Ec for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr6FS-0004WM-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35845 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr6FS-0004WJ-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:63697) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr6FR-0008EC-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KQI00F00QA5DS00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:48 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.48.81]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KQI00DZPQGB7300@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:48 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:115604 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:06:24 +0200 > From: Ulrich Mueller > > Is the following a feature or a bug? > > $ 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?