Re: face for non-ASCII characters

[Florian Beck]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:08:42 +0100 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote: 
>
> ...
> LB> (defface markchars-face
> LB>   '((t (:underline "light blue")))
> LB>   "Face for `markchars-mode' char marking."
> LB>   :group 'markchars)
>
> LB> (defconst markchars-keywords
> LB>   `(
> LB>     ("[[:nonascii:]]"
> LB>      (0 (put-text-property (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
> LB>                            'face 'markchars-face)))
> LB>     ))
>
> This is what I was thinking of, and the effect should be subtle.  The
> light blue underline is pretty good; it would be nice if it could be a
> choice between a few similarly well-chosen defaults (I'm hardly the one
> to provide them, though).  
>
> I would make this an Emacs first-class option rather than an optional
> library.  I think it's really useful.

You could always do something like

(set-fontset-font "fontset-coding" ;; or whatever
        '(128 . 999999)
        (font-spec :family "LastResort" :size 20) ;; ok, not so subtle
        nil 'prepend)



> Ted