From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:37 -0400 Message-ID: <874o68zjhi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <83mxk0u0g7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302287272 13536 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 18:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 20:27:47 2011 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 1Q8GPK-00013z-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:27:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8GPK-0002Ca-7n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39382 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8GPE-0002Bt-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8GPD-0006Mw-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:38198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8GPC-0006Mk-Uw; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014187.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.187]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p38IRcbl010821 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 653EB1604EB; Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:27:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mxk0u0g7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:17:44 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 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:138316 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > tabulated-list-init-header assumes without testing that u+25b2 and > u+25bc will be displayed as themselves. But with various values of > glyphless-char-display-control, this may not be true. Also, on text > terminals these characters generally cannot be displayed, which makes > the entire header line ugly, if not bug-like. We can probably use "^" and "v" when the unicode glyphs cannot be displayed, but it sure would be nice to the glyphs whereever possible. Any idea how to go about checking this?