From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26859 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan Vroonhof Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strange display problem Date: 15 Nov 1999 18:39:08 +0100 Organization: ETHZ Mathematik Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87g0ybwzw2.fsf@worldonline.dk> <87yac3t9uj.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 1035163989 21623 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:33:09 +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 MAA16782 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:40:26 -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 LAB31464; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:40:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:39:55 -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 LAA02663 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:39:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [193.69.4.139]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16777 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:39:10 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by quimby.gnus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA29670 for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:41:19 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bolzano.math.ethz.ch Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 942687679 1211 129.132.146.140 (15 Nov 1999 17:41:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Nov 1999 17:41:19 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.070083 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.83) XEmacs/21.1 (Acadia) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26859 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26859 "Rene H. Larsen" writes: [Somehow I middes this message on the auc.dk newsserver. I swicthed to quimby for this one] > > 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. OK, it is a font painting problem then. > > 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 "". That was just to make result more apparent. > > 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. 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. Jan