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bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static compo
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:13:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
>> Cc: list-general@mohsen.1.banan.byname.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0900
>>
>> In article <83fwd0wnwl.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > Btw, there's some strange problem in displaying one label of the
>> > hebrew-biblical-tiro input method: the character u+05ba (inserted by
>> > Shift-5 key) is displayed as a blank rectangle. It looks like my
>> > fonts have no glyph for this character, but then why don't we display
>> > this like any other glyphless character: as a hex code inside a small
>> > rectangle? That's what I get if I insert this character into a
>> > buffer, but somehow the way we display it in the keyboard layout (and
>> > in the "C-u C-x =" display under "decomposition") behaves differently.
>> > Why is that?
>>
>> As that character is a non-spacing modifier, we display it
>> with a static composition, and a glyph in a static
>> composition are displayed by a blank rectangle if no font is
>> available. This is because a hex code makes the resulting
>> display of composition (several glyphs may occupy a single
>> column) unreadable.
>>
>> It may be possible to change the current code to use a hex
>> code displaying if a composition contains just one glyph and
>> that glyph has no font, but it may be for 24.2.
>
> So this bug will wait for after Emacs 24.1 release to be fixed.
>
> Thanks.
Hi Eli,
No update on this bug in 7 years. Has this been fixed in the
intervening time?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
- bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition,
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