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: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:13:51 +0300 Message-ID: <837hjcm9cw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83aao8mjzx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282918446 13154 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 14:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 16:14:04 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 1Oozgx-0003fq-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:14:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oozgw-0000Ly-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37033 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oozgq-0000Lt-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oozgo-00057n-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:13:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:46844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oozgo-00057T-E1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:13:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7T00E00DU4Z100@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:13:38 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.186.164]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7T00ETSE6PR760@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:13:38 +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:129304 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:44:16 +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. > Before Emacs 23, the character #xA0 represents the byte > 0xA0. But now it is a character representing a Unicode > character U+00A0, and #x3FFFA0 is the character representing > the byte 0xA0. > > And, to "display characters literally", we have been encoded > characters by the terminal coding system. Before Emacs 23, > the encoded result of #xA0 is always the byte 0xA0, but now > it depends on the terminal coding system. Which means, AFAIU, that "literally" is no longer possible. At least in the case of a multibyte buffer. What about a unibyte buffer, though? How do we display the characters there?