Re: Display slowness that is painful

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> The doc string still says:
>
>     unibyte-display-via-language-environment's value is nil
>
>     *Non-nil means display unibyte text according to language environment.
>     Specifically this means that unibyte non-ASCII characters
>     are displayed by converting them to the equivalent multibyte characters
>     according to the current language environment.  As a result, they are
>     displayed according to the current fontset.
>
> Is that a lie?

Apparently the conversion to multibyte is broken in some way.  In the
normal case, when unibyte-display-via-language-environment is nil, no
non-ascii character are ever used for display, so it works as expected.

Andreas.

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