diff etc/NEWS @ 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/etc/NEWS	Sat Nov 13 11:42:32 2010 +0100
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sat Nov 13 15:29:31 2010 +0200
@@ -138,6 +138,18 @@
 Emacs.pane.menubar.faceName:  Courier-12
 Set faceName to none and use font to use the old X fonts.
 
++++
+** Enhanced support for characters that have no glyphs in available fonts
+If a character has no glyphs in any of the available fonts, Emacs by
+default will display it either as a hexadecimal code in a box or as a
+thin 1-pixel space.  In addition to these two methods, Emacs can
+display these characters as empty box, as an acronym, or not display
+them at all.  To change how these characters are displayed, customize
+the variable `glyphless-char-display-control'.
+
+On character terminals these methods are used for characters that
+cannot be encoded by the `terminal-coding-system'.
+
 ** On graphical displays, the mode-line no longer ends in dashes.
 
 ** Basic SELinux support has been added.