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Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition |
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Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:12:02 +0200 |
> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:41:07 +0900
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> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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Re: bug#11072: Display of glyphless non-spacing modifiers via a static composition |
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Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:13:34 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:13:16 +0100
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> >> 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?
It seems so: I now see a box with a hex code.
Closing.
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