No display-table with UTF-8

[Daniel Pfeiffer]

Hi,

after I ran into too many problems a few years back, I'm currently taking
another shot at updating my X-environment to a de_DE.UTF-8 locale.  This works
nicely with CVS emacs.

The problem are these kind of lines in my .emacs:

(set-char-table-extra-slot standard-display-table 2 9437276)
(aset standard-display-table 2208 [9437276 ?\ ])
(aset standard-display-table 2221 [9437276 ?-])

where those weird huge numbers are a highlighted backslash:

(+ (lsh (face-id 'secondary-selection) 19) ?\\)

Too bad standard-display-table is nil when I set LANG this way.  How do I
highlight the extra-slots when using unicode?

best regards
Daniel