From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26770 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rene H. Larsen" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strange display problem Date: 13 Nov 1999 03:16:04 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87yac3t9uj.fsf@worldonline.dk> References: <87g0ybwzw2.fsf@worldonline.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163917 21144 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:31:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10267 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:16:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB26063; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:16:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:16:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11067 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:16:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from fe000.worldonline.dk (fe000.worldonline.dk [212.54.64.194]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA10259 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:16:15 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 25084 invoked by uid 0); 13 Nov 1999 02:16:11 -0000 Original-Received: from 58.ppp1-40.image.dk (HELO izzlazz.ournet.dk) (212.54.79.186) by fe000.worldonline.dk with SMTP; 13 Nov 1999 02:16:11 -0000 Original-Received: from renehl.ournet.dk [192.168.0.1] (mail) by izzlazz.ournet.dk with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11mSjU-0002dM-00; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:16:04 +0100 Original-Received: from renehl by renehl.ournet.dk with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11mSjU-0008MY-00; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 03:16:04 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070099 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26770 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26770 Jan Vroonhof writes: > N.B. I don't think this really a Gnus problem. What platform are you > using? It turns out that it isn't. It's just that I hadn't seen this problem outside of Gnus before. I'm on a Debian GNU/Linux potato system. > Those x's are character nr 160 (nobreakspace in latin-1). Does your > XEmacs also have problem if you do > > (loop repeat 4 do (insert (char-to-string 160))) > > in a scratch buffer? Yep, these characters show exactly the same display artifacts. > If so, does the problem go away if you do? > > (aset (specifier-instance current-display-table) 160 "") Sort of. Now the characters just show as "". > If so what font do you use? Does changing the font help. The lucidatypewriter font has this problem, but the default courier font doesn't. I'd hate to have to switch back to courier. 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? -- Echelon bait: David John Oates FBI Qaddafi Rule Psix class struggle SDI Waco, Texas Kennedy Roswell [Hello to all my fans in domestic surveillance] Ft. Bragg DES Khaddafi munitions counter-intelligence