Re: bug of display-table & make-glyph-code

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     The number of bits left over in a glyph code for the face number
>     is vastly reduced on the unicode-2 branch, so as soon as we
>     merge that to the trunk, the problem will certainly be
>     visible on trunk.

>     The solution is to find some other way to merge a face with a
>     char-code to make a glyph code.  We have discussed this some
>     time ago.

> I asked Handa if he could please work on this
> in unicode-2.

I'll work on it.

I think we anyway need some backward imcompatible change,
and require rewriting of old codes that utilize glyph-table.
And, if so, it seems that deleting glyph-table (and
create-glyph) is the easiet solution.

Shall I go ahead along that line?

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Kenichi Handa
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