From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Composed with ... by these characters Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:57:36 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233938896 29534 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2009 16:48:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 17:49:31 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 1LVTtS-0005iQ-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:49:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41832 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVTs8-0003mh-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVT5U-0007Ad-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVT5T-0007A2-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42839 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVT5T-00079x-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:45335) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVT5S-0004X2-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KEN00M00IYGX500@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:58:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.238.131]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KEN0062XJ0MVXN1@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:57:59 +0200 (IST) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:108824 Archived-At: emacs -Q -nw After "C-h H", go to the "Bengali" line, type C-f to get to one of the non-ASCII characters, and type "C-u C-x =". In the "*Help*" buffer, you will see the following snippet, among other text: Composed with the surrounding characters "?" and "??" by these characters: ? (#x2476) ? (#x2494) ? (#x2434) ? (#x2482) What does it mean "composed with ... characters ... BY THESE CHARACTERS? This probably needs to be rephrased, but how? Also, is it normal that on a tty such composed characters show more ? characters than glyphs on a GUI display? For example, in a GUI session, the word inside parentheses after "Bengali" is displayed with 2 glyphs, while a tty shows no less than 5 question marks. Is this expected behavior?