From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:17:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84of65cz3l.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200301250116.KAA11729@etlken.m17n.org
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> In article <rzqbs263bxm.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>, Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> I just got reminded about this. I think the standard display table
>> should display eight-bit-graphic characters as octal in multibyte
>> mode. Displaying them as graphics can be misleading.
>
> I agree, and I vaguely remember that we discussed it looong
> ago, and people agreed on displaying them as octal.
I thought it was discussed and it was agreed to display them as
graphic? But I agree that it is misleading.
I think the idea was that people who use eight-bit locales expect
things to be displayed using that charset -- so if a random byte
comes along, and it happens to match the code for ä in that locale,
then display that byte as ä. Regardless of whether the random byte
is really known to be in iso-8859-1 encoding. So Emacs would match
the behavior of /bin/cat in this respect.
Hm. I think that Erik Naggum has argued in this direction before.
His stuff is sometimes difficult to read (because you have to ignore
the rant) but I guess his arguments are more coherent and
comprehensible than mine.
--
Ambibibentists unite!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-24 13:38 display table for eight-bit-graphic Dave Love
2003-01-25 1:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-25 10:17 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-01-25 22:24 ` Ehud Karni
2003-01-26 14:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-26 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-27 2:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-01-29 0:04 ` Richard Stallman
2003-01-29 11:03 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-03 18:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-03 20:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-18 7:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-19 8:48 ` Richard Stallman
2003-03-19 10:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-03-21 19:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-03 14:28 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:29 ` Dave Love
2003-02-03 14:32 ` Dave Love
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