Re: [harder@ifa.au.dk: `set-locale-environment' bug]

[Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
>
>>  (standard-display-8bit (if (eq window-system 'pc) 128 160) 255)
>> 
>> This controls how eight-bit-control and eight-bit-graphics is
>> displayed, right?
>
> this sets up the display of characters whose 8-bit codepoints are
> [160..255], i.e., the normal 8-bit region of Latin-1 characters.
>
> In other words, for a typical Unix or GNU system in the dk locale,
> this line instructs Emacs to send the 8-bit codes of Latin-1
> characters directly to the terminal, which is what I think you'd
> want, since terminals in your locale generally support display of
> Latin-1 characters.

I don't understand.  As far as I can tell it makes no difference for
the display of Latin-1 characters.

It does _not_ change the dislay of `M-x list-charset-chars
latin-iso8859-1' in an xterm, the console or in X.

It does, however, change the display of the eight-bit-graphic
"charset".