From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Usage of standard-display-table in MSDOS Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:34:37 +0900 Message-ID: <8739u47evm.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282629272 25713 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2010 05:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:54:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 07:54:29 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 1OnmSq-0006kD-EN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OnmSp-0001FU-72 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52896 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OnmSd-0001FP-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnmSb-0006LT-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:54:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.254.171] (port=48383 helo=dmail02.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OnmSb-0006Kd-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.254.130]) by dmail02.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16500F536E for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:38:12 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A4FAF4003; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:38:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA06F4002; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:38:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE193FA0246; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:38:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 627031A47B8; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:34:37 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:129112 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: > In msdos-initialize-window-system (of term/pc-win.el), I > found this code: > > ;; In multibyte mode, we want unibyte buffers to be displayed > ;; using the terminal coding system, so that they display > ;; correctly on the DOS terminal; in unibyte mode we want to see > ;; all 8-bit characters verbatim. In both cases, we want the > ;; entire range of 8-bit characters to arrive at our display code > ;; verbatim. > (standard-display-8bit 127 255) > > Is it really working in non-iso-8859-1 environment as > expected? Note that 128..255 are latin-1 characters after > Emacs 23, not raw-bytes. So, I think the above call will > make 8-bit bytes in unibyte buffer displayed as latin-1 > characters, but as the termial encoding system doesn't > support latin-1 chars in, for instance, greek environment, > just '?' will be displayed. Hebrew and Cyrillic are other obvious candidates for testing here. They seem to have more active participants on emacs-devel.