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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzl8e8zop.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tl78wfzl3br.fsf@m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:24:24 +0900")

> Actually, the interpretation of characters in a unnibyte
> buffer is still inconsistent.  For instance,
> skip-syntax-forward treats #x80..#xFF as characters
> U+0080..U+00FF.  Thus #xC0 is a word-constituent and #xD7 is
> a symbol.  We must fix it somehow.  But, how?  We currently
> don't have a suitable syntax code for eight-bit chars.

While I agree that treating bytes as if they were latin-1 chars isn't
ideal, I don't think the alternative (treat every byte >=128 as
punctuation, I guess) would really be much better.  So there's not much
point "fixing" this "problem".


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-28 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-24 15:06 Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Ulrich Mueller
2009-09-25  8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-25  9:00   ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-09-25  9:14     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28  1:10       ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-28  6:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28 11:24           ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-28 14:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-28 22:38             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-09-29  1:05               ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-29  1:35                 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29  2:37                   ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-29  3:15                     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-29  7:52                       ` Kenichi Handa
     [not found]                         ` <831vljpm0v.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-10-05  0:49                           ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-25  9:38   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-09-25 14:09   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-26  8:26     ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-09-25  9:44 ` Andreas Schwab

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