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Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@frege.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> "Rene H. Larsen" <rhl@traceroute.dk> writes:

[...]

> > The lucidatypewriter font has this problem, but the default courier
> > font doesn't.  I'd hate to have to switch back to courier.
> 
> So this is a bug in the lucidatypewriter font/the X drawing mechanism.
> 
> > Do you think
> > 
> > (aset (specifier-instance current-display-table) 160 " ")
> > 
> > is a suitable workaround for this problem, or are there any pitfalls I
> > haven't thought of?
> 
> I cannot think of problems any at the moment.
> The question is whether this should be included by default.

If it doesn't cause any problems, I think it should.  This problem may
not be limited to the lucidatypewriter font.

Thanks for the reply.
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