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Composed with ... by these characters
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Composed with ... by these characters |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:57:36 +0200 |
emacs -Q -nw
After "C-h H", go to the "Bengali" line, type C-f to get to one of the
non-ASCII characters, and type "C-u C-x =". In the "*Help*" buffer,
you will see the following snippet, among other text:
Composed with the surrounding characters "?" and "??" by these characters:
? (#x2476)
? (#x2494)
? (#x2434)
? (#x2482)
What does it mean "composed with ... characters ... BY THESE
CHARACTERS? This probably needs to be rephrased, but how?
Also, is it normal that on a tty such composed characters show more ?
characters than glyphs on a GUI display? For example, in a GUI
session, the word inside parentheses after "Bengali" is displayed with
2 glyphs, while a tty shows no less than 5 question marks. Is this
expected behavior?
- Composed with ... by these characters,
Eli Zaretskii <=