Re: No display-table with UTF-8

[Kevin Rodgers]

Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:

> 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?

How about:

(or standard-display-table
    (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))

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Kevin Rodgers