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: Usage of standard-display-table in MSDOS Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:02:40 +0300 Message-ID: <8362ysls4v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83aao8mjzx.fsf@gnu.org> <837hjcm9cw.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6brkxqe.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283137280 20653 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 03:01:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 05:01:19 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpucX-0007i2-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:01:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpucW-00028w-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56675 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OpucP-00028F-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpucN-00012n-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:52811) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OpucN-00012j-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:01:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7Y00J002NTOT00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.93.239]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7Y00JXX30ZOM10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:00:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:129411 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:24:13 +0900 > > > > > > > "Display characters in the range L to H literally." > > > > > > > > > > > The "literally" part is no longer true, is it? > > > > > > > > > > What's the meaning of "literally" when a display table > > > > > element is [#xA0]? > > > > > > > It means that a literal byte 0xA0 is sent to the terminal. > > > > > > From which document, can we get that interpretation? > > > That's my understanding of the word "literally". > > But, how do you apply that understanding to this element: > [#x100] We could document that standard-display-8bit works only for arguments less than 256. We could even code it that way. That would be backward compatible, since this function was written when Emacs supported only unibyte characters.