ISO 8859-1 and others can't display NO-BREAK SPACE

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

In ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-6, ISO 8859-10, ISO 8859-13, ISO 8859-15, and 
ISO 8859-16 the NO-BREAK SPACE character isn't correctly displayed as 
kind of white space but as \ with some space. In the other Latin 
encodings it looks better. C-u C-x = tells me:

  character: \  (04240, 2208, 0x8a0, U+00A0)
    charset: latin-iso8859-1 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 
(ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
 code point: 32
     syntax: .  which means: punctuation
   category:  :This character counts as a space for indentation 
purposes.   l:Latin
buffer code: 0x81 0xA0
  file code: 0xA0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--11-80-100-100-M-60-ISO8859-1 (0xA0)

  character:   (04440, 2336, 0x920, U+00A0)
    charset: latin-iso8859-2 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 2 
(ISO/IEC 8859-2): ISO-IR-101.)
 code point: 32
     syntax: .  which means: punctuation
   category:  :This character counts as a space for indentation 
purposes.   l:Latin
buffer code: 0x82 0xA0
  file code: 0xA0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-2-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--11-80-100-100-M-60-ISO8859-2 (0xA0)

  character:   (05040, 2592, 0xa20, U+00A0)
    charset: latin-iso8859-4 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 4 
(ISO/IEC 8859-4): ISO-IR-110.)
 code point: 32
     syntax: .  which means: punctuation
   category:  :This character counts as a space for indentation 
purposes.   l:Latin
buffer code: 0x84 0xA0
  file code: 0xA0 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-4-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--11-80-100-100-M-60-ISO8859-4 (0xA0)


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  Pete

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