From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87mvr9wxqz.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87io1xwq1e.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87vb5wvzfz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87io1wt4cc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737syoima.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871t8iu277.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s28kvh.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3gis7sm.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83twle71xy.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org 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 1455377569 14159 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2016 15:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 13 16:32:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1aUcBW-0000qC-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:32:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUcBV-0004Xs-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUcBS-0004Xm-Lx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUcBR-0007Rz-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUcBK-0007Qa-VM; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aUcBK-0005VE-AM; Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:32:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <83twle71xy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:44:25 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199873 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > If ñ is meant to be read as ñ > Don't you see them displayed identically in Emacs (and in any other > program that correctly implements display of combining accents)? > Maybe I don't really understand that "if" part. I am using Emacs on a Linux console. I see them as two characters. The first is n, and the second displays as a diamond. I get the impression Emacs expects them to display as a single character, though, because it messes up cursor positioning. (Someone told me a variable to set to prevent that messing up, but I failed to set it in .emacs and I don't remember its name now. Does anyone recall?) -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.