Re: Usage of standard-display-table in MSDOS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:24:13 +0900
> 
> > > > > > "Display characters in the range L to H literally."
> > > > > 
> > > > > > The "literally" part is no longer true, is it?
> > > > > 
> > > > > What's the meaning of "literally" when a display table
> > > > > element is [#xA0]?
> > > 
> > > > It means that a literal byte 0xA0 is sent to the terminal.
> > > 
> > > From which document, can we get that interpretation?
> 
> > That's my understanding of the word "literally".
> 
> But, how do you apply that understanding to this element:
>   [#x100]

We could document that standard-display-8bit works only for arguments
less than 256.  We could even code it that way.  That would be
backward compatible, since this function was written when Emacs
supported only unibyte characters.