diff doc/emacs/mule.texi @ 111526:5c986eef8f0d

Fix and document display of glyphless characters. src/xdisp.c (set_cursor_from_row): Fix cursor positioning on zero-width characters. (syms_of_xdisp) <glyphless-char-display>: Doc fix. src/.gdbinit (pgx): Adapt to latest changes in `struct glyph'. src/w32term.c (x_draw_glyphless_glyph_string_foreground): Draw the box before drawing the glyphs inside it. src/dispextern.h (enum glyphless_display_method): Rename GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_HEXA_CODE to GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_HEX_CODE. All users changed. src/term.c (append_glyphless_glyph, produce_glyphless_glyph): Fix comments. (produce_glyphless_glyph): Enclose "U+nnnn" and "empty box" whitespace in "[]", to simulate a box. Don't use uninitialized variable `width'. lisp/international/characters.el (glyphless-char-display-control): Renamed from glyphless-char-control; all users changed. Doc fix. Signal an error if display method is not one of the recognized symbols. doc/emacs/rmail.texi (Rmail Coding): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. doc/emacs/mule.texi (Language Environments, Fontsets): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. doc/emacs/display.texi (Text Display): Document display of glyphless characters. doc/lispref/display.texi (Usual Display): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. etc/NEWS: Document display of glyphless characters.

--- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi	Sat Nov 13 11:42:32 2010 +0100
+++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi	Sat Nov 13 15:29:31 2010 +0200
@@ -351,10 +351,11 @@
 @cindex Intlfonts package, installation
   To display the script(s) used by your language environment on a
 graphical display, you need to have a suitable font.  If some of the
-characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts
-package, which includes fonts for most supported scripts.@footnote{If
-you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location
-of the newly installed fonts with the following commands:
+characters appear as empty boxes or hex codes, you should install the
+GNU Intlfonts package, which includes fonts for most supported
+scripts.@footnote{If you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X
+server about the location of the newly installed fonts with the
+following commands:
 
 @example
  xset fp+ /usr/local/share/emacs/fonts
@@ -1314,10 +1315,11 @@
 explicitly requested, despite its name.
 
   A fontset does not necessarily specify a font for every character
-code.  If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if it
-specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot
-display that character properly.  It will display that character as an
-empty box instead.
+code.  If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if
+it specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot
+display that character properly.  It will display that character as a
+hex code or thin space or an empty box instead.  (@xref{Text Display,
+glyphless characters}, for details.)
 
 @node Defining Fontsets
 @section Defining fontsets