From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 26.1.92, 26.1-mac-7.4; unrecognised escaped chars in *Help*
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:13:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef7kc75p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m28sxs3k2m.fsf@scratch.space> (message from Van L on Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:47:29 +1100)
> From: Van L <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:47:29 +1100
>
> >> \200 .. 3FF_F7F self-insert-command
> >> \200 .. \377 self-insert-command
> >
> > Yes. This is admittedly confusing, although 100% correct.
>
> But. But. But. Less than 100% beautiful. The out of ASCII range row
> terminated by unprintables as visually balanced hex values in a box
> would look and feel nicer.
This just uses the default Emacs display of these characters.
Producing some fancy alternatives might be source of a different kind
of confusion ("why does 'C-h b' show the characters differently than
what they look like in my buffers?").
> "C-u C-x =" or M-x describe-char RET puts them in
>
> category: l:Latin
> category: L:Left-to-right (strong)
You are looking at the wrong parts. Look at the "charset" part.
> Should I file a bug report for copy and paste inconsistency when trying
> to collect in one buffer the `M-x describe-char' output? for the above two.
What inconsistency is that?
> Highlight region then M-w C-y fails
Fails how? It didn't fail for me.
> Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
> or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
> to remove or modify the problematic characters,
> or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
> the problematic characters).
>
> raw-text no-conversion
That's because you have raw bytes in the buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-06 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-04 1:46 26.1.92, 26.1-mac-7.4; unrecognised escaped chars in *Help* Van L
2019-03-05 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-06 0:47 ` Van L
2019-03-06 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-21 12:13 ` 26.2 RC1 copy-and-paste fail Van L
2019-03-21 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 22:33 ` Van L
2019-03-22 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 8:35 ` Van L
2019-03-22 9:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-22 14:01 ` Van L
2019-03-22 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-24 4:34 ` Van L
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