From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Quesseveur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Display of no break spaces Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:16:10 +0100 Organization: Les Enchantements de Miraldra Message-ID: <8638yipftx.fsf@free.fr> Reply-To: pascal.quesseveur@free.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357219218 22357 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2013 13:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:20:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 14:20:35 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tqkil-0004Zh-2Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53983 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TqkiV-0005oG-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:20:15 -0500 X-Received: by 10.180.91.114 with SMTP id cd18mr12938213wib.2.1357218983203; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:16:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m3no4985511wim.1!news-out.google.com!i11ni349549wiw.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp1-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) X-Attribution: PQsr Cancel-Lock: sha1:S2mG52tWzbS3BW2eQ27MucsUMzc= Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Jan 2013 14:16:22 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.241.156.15 Original-X-Trace: 1357218982 news-1.free.fr 1938 78.241.156.15:55279 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196096 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88405 Archived-At: Hello, I don't understand the mechanism used to display no break spaces. The character is displayed as a big box with what looks like small numbers inside. My config is the following: GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN default font is -outline-consolas-normal-r-*-*-*-90-*-*-c-*-* Here is the ouput of F1-v nobreak-char-display: nobreak-char-display is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is t And here is the output of describe-char on a no break space: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- position: 223 of 305 (73%), column: 0 character:   (displayed as  ) (codepoint 160, #o240, #xa0) preferred charset: iso-8859-1 (Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1)) code point in charset: 0xA0 syntax: . which means: punctuation category: .:Base, b:Arabic, j:Japanese, l:Latin buffer code: #xC2 #xA0 file code: #xA0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-dos) display: by display table entry [?􀂷] (see below) The display table entry is displayed by these fonts (glyph codes): 􀂷: -- no font -- face: `link' Character code properties: customize what to show name: NO-BREAK SPACE old-name: NON-BREAKING SPACE general-category: Zs (Separator, Space) decomposition: (noBreak 32) (noBreak ' ') There are text properties here: fontified t --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I don't understand why the no break space is displayed using link face. What can I do to change the way it is displayed? -- Pascal Quesseveur pascal.quesseveur@free.fr