From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19131.35568.835627.216245@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <833a6bv30o.fsf@gnu.org> <19132.34451.565451.857731@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <83ws3ntmgv.fsf@gnu.org> <831vlrsh6q.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254177517 28216 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 22:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 29 00:38:29 2009 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 4.50) id 1MsOrV-0006Wo-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:38:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOrU-0000Bu-B2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOrN-0000B3-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOrI-00008E-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsOrH-00007q-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:26588 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsOrG-0007F4-FG; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:14 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgEFAB/YwEpFxIo//2dsb2JhbACBUdVrhB4Fh30 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,469,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="46757451" Original-Received: from 69-196-138-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.138.63]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 28 Sep 2009 18:38:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5F79380C4; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:38:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:24:24 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:115753 Archived-At: > 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