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Re: 22.2.50; Display of "zero width no-break space" (U+FEFF)
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: 22.2.50; Display of "zero width no-break space" (U+FEFF) |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:35:49 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, Apr 06 2008, Reiner Steib wrote:
> in Emacs 22.2.50, "zero width no-break space" (U+FEFF) is displayed as
> a hollow box. [1]
>
> I think for normal buffers it should be displayed like ` ' (NO-BREAK
> SPACE, U+00A0) i.e. using the face face `nobreak-space'. But when
> `nobreak-char-display' is nil, it should not be displayed at all or
> like a normal SPC. (Dunno what Unicode says about it.)
Any opinions on this?
> In gedit, xedit (with the same font as in Emacs) and Firefox[2], the
> char is displayed like a space char (i.e. not "zero width").
Similar: U+2403
,----
| character: ␃ (343747, #o1237303, #x53ec3, U+2403)
| [...]
| display: by this font (glyph code)
| -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--12-110-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 (#x2403)
| Unicode data:
| Name: SYMBOL FOR END OF TEXT
| Category: other symbol
| Combining class: Spacing
| Bidi category: Other Neutrals
| Old name: GRAPHIC FOR END OF TEXT
`----
> [1]
> ,----[ M-x describe-char RET ]
> | character: (325983, #o1174537, #x4f95f, U+FEFF)
> | charset: mule-unicode-e000-ffff
> | (Unicode characters of the range U+E000..U+FFFF.)
> | code point: #x72 #x5F
> | syntax: w which means: word
> | buffer code: #x9C #xF3 #xF2 #xDF
> | file code: #xEF #xBB #xBF (encoded by coding system utf-8)
> | display: by this font (glyph code)
> | -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1
> (#xFEFF)
> | Unicode data:
> | Name: ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE
> | Category: other format
> | Combining class: Spacing
> | Bidi category: Boundary Neutral
> | Old name: BYTE ORDER MARK
> `----
>
> [2] In both lines, the first char after the first space is U+FFFF:
> ,----[ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/11614/ ]
> |regarding gmane.linux.debian.devel.www : [...]
> |like http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
> `----
Bye, Reiner.
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