Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:10:23 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>                            (char-charset char))))
> >> +           ;; TIS620.2533 overlaps eight-bit-control, but we want to
> >> +           ;; show eight-bit for raw bytes, not some obscure character
> >> +           ;; set no one heard of.
> >> +           (charset (if (eq charset 'tis620-2533)
> >> +                        'eight-bit
> >> +                      charset))
> >
> > Do we need `char-charset` to return `tis620-2533` for these, or could we
> > instead of the above change `char-charset` to return `eight-bit` or
> > `eight-bit-control`?
> 
> Setting ':supplementary-p t' on tis620-2533 induces 'char-charset' to
> return 'eight-bit' for raw byte chars.

Yes, which is why I asked about Handa-san that.  The documentation
doesn't tell what are the considerations or disadvantages of using
this property.