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Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: display table for eight-bit-graphic |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:17:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I just got reminded about this. I think the standard display table
>> should display eight-bit-graphic characters as octal in multibyte
>> mode. Displaying them as graphics can be misleading.
>
> I agree, and I vaguely remember that we discussed it looong
> ago, and people agreed on displaying them as octal.
I thought it was discussed and it was agreed to display them as
graphic? But I agree that it is misleading.
I think the idea was that people who use eight-bit locales expect
things to be displayed using that charset -- so if a random byte
comes along, and it happens to match the code for ä in that locale,
then display that byte as ä. Regardless of whether the random byte
is really known to be in iso-8859-1 encoding. So Emacs would match
the behavior of /bin/cat in this respect.
Hm. I think that Erik Naggum has argued in this direction before.
His stuff is sometimes difficult to read (because you have to ignore
the rant) but I guess his arguments are more coherent and
comprehensible than mine.
--
Ambibibentists unite!