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changeset 66051:ef089f655621
(Position Info): Describe the case that Emacs shows
"part of display ...".
| author | Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:02:30 +0000 |
| parents | 305c3788dcb2 |
| children | 0d9544d56664 |
| files | man/basic.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/basic.texi Wed Oct 12 12:19:15 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/basic.texi Wed Oct 12 13:02:30 2005 +0000 @@ -636,10 +636,17 @@ The four values after @samp{Char:} describe the character that follows point, first by showing it and then by giving its character code in octal, decimal and hex. For a non-@acronym{ASCII} multibyte character, these are -followed by @samp{ext} and the character's representation, in hex, in +followed by @samp{file} and the character's representation, in hex, in the buffer's coding system, if that coding system encodes the character safely and with a single byte (@pxref{Coding Systems}). If the -character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{ext ...}. +character's encoding is longer than one byte, Emacs shows @samp{file ...}. + + However, if the character displayed is in the range 0200 through +0377 octal, there's a case that it actually represents an invalid +UTF-8 byte. Emacs represents such a byte in a buffer by a sequence of +8-bit characters, but displays only the original invalid byte in octal +form. In such a case, Emacs shows @samp{part of display ...} instead +of @samp{file}. @samp{point=} is followed by the position of point expressed as a character count. The front of the buffer counts as position 1, one character later