Re: Display of characters #xa0 and #xad in unibyte buffers

[Andreas Schwab]

Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> writes:

> Is the following a feature or a bug?
>
>     $ emacs -Q
>     M-x toggle-enable-multibyte-characters RET C-q 240 RET C-q 255 RET
>
> The characters are displayed as "_-" (approximately).
>
> Shouldn't they be displayed as "\240\255", considering that these are
> raw bytes with no specific meaning?

See nobreak-char-display.

Andreas.

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