bug#13691: 24.3.50; Problem with glyphs in unibyte buffers

[Eduardo Ochs]

It seems that the bug is solved in Emacs26. I don't have Emacs27
or git Emacs in this machine, but I will compile them tomorrow
and check.

The shell script that I used to do the test is below (for the sake of
completeness). It creates two very similar files that only differ in
their "coding:" lines and then opens them with "emacs26 -Q". After
opening each of them you will have to run `M-x eval-buffer' and then
do a `C-x C-e' after the `(insert ...)' line close to the end.

Just a curiosity... is there a standard(-ish) way to send a
script like this to a shell buffer? I use eev all the time and in
eev this is trivial - see:

  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eepitch-intro.html#1

but sometimes I need to send scripts and tests like this to
people that don't use eev...

  Cheers, thanks, etc,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html


Here is the script...




cd /tmp/
rm -fv /tmp/glyph-bug*

cat > glyph-bug-raw-text <<'%%%%%%%%'
(defun eepitch-set-glyph (pos &optional char face)
  (aset standard-display-table pos
        (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))

(defun eepitch-set-glyph-8bit (pos &optional char face)
  (aset standard-display-table (make-char 'eight-bit pos)
        (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))

(if (not standard-display-table)
    (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table))
  )

(defface eev-glyph-face-green '((t :foreground "green")) "")
(eepitch-set-glyph      171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph      187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)

(defface eev-glyph-face-math  '((t :foreground "RoyalBlue2"
                                   :background "gray20")) "")
(eepitch-set-glyph      191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)

;; After doing an M-x eval-buffer,
;; run these tests "by hand" with C-x C-e:
;; (emacs-version)
;; (make-char 'eight-bit 191)
;; (insert "\n;; " 171 187 191)

;; Local Variables:
;; coding:  raw-text-unix
;; mode:    emacs-lisp
;; End:
%%%%%%%%



cat > glyph-bug-utf-8 <<'%%%%%%%%'
(defun eepitch-set-glyph (pos &optional char face)
  (aset standard-display-table pos
        (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))

(defun eepitch-set-glyph-8bit (pos &optional char face)
  (aset standard-display-table (make-char 'eight-bit pos)
        (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))

(if (not standard-display-table)
    (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table))
  )

(defface eev-glyph-face-green '((t :foreground "green")) "")
(eepitch-set-glyph      171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph      187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)

(defface eev-glyph-face-math  '((t :foreground "RoyalBlue2"
                                   :background "gray20")) "")
(eepitch-set-glyph      191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)
(eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)

;; After doing an M-x eval-buffer,
;; run these tests "by hand" with C-x C-e:
;; (emacs-version)
;; (make-char 'eight-bit 191)
;; (insert "\n;; " 171 187 191)

;; Local Variables:
;; coding:  utf-8-unix
;; mode:    emacs-lisp
;; End:
%%%%%%%%


~/bigsrc/emacs26/src/emacs -Q -bg black -fg bisque /tmp/glyph-bug-raw-text
~/bigsrc/emacs26/src/emacs -Q -bg black -fg bisque /tmp/glyph-bug-utf-8
/usr/bin/emacs -Q -bg black -fg bisque /tmp/glyph-bug-raw-text
/usr/bin/emacs -Q -bg black -fg bisque /tmp/glyph-bug-utf-8

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 23:32, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
>
> Hi Eduardo,
>
> You sent the below description to the Emacs bug list 7 years ago.
>
> The email you sent is quite long, and I'm not sure what exactly the
> issue is, or how to try to reproduce it.
>
> Can you reproduce the issue on a recent version of Emacs, such as the
> recently released version 27.1?
>
> If yes, could you please provide a minimal step-by-step recipe for
> reproducing it, starting from "emacs -Q"?
>
> If I don't hear back from you within a couple of weeks, I'll just
> close this bug as unreproducible.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
>
> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Unibyte characters are in the eight-bit charset, so you need to set the
> >> display of the corresponding character in that charset, eg. (make-char
> >> 'eight-bit 171).
> >
> > Thanks, that worked!
> >
> > Now for something slightly trickier... =|
> >
> > Let's start by using several simple, low-level functions, one for
> > each range... a smarter function with `cond's can be left for
> > later. The code below makes the green guillemets work both in
> > unibyte and multibyte buffers,
> >
> >   (defun eepitch-set-glyph (pos &optional char face)
> >     (aset standard-display-table pos
> >         (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))
> >
> >   (defun eepitch-set-glyph-8bit (pos &optional char face)
> >     (aset standard-display-table (make-char 'eight-bit pos)
> >         (if char (vector (make-glyph-code char face)))))
> >
> >   (if (not standard-display-table)
> >       (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table))
> >     )
> >
> >   (defface eev-glyph-face-green '((t :foreground "green")) "")
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph      171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 171 171 'eev-glyph-face-green)
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph      187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 187 187 'eev-glyph-face-green)
> >
> > but now suppose that we want the char 191 to be displayed as a
> > blue nabla (unicode: 8711). Running
> >
> >   (defface eev-glyph-face-math  '((t :foreground "RoyalBlue2"
> >                                    :background "gray20")) "")
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph      191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)
> >   (eepitch-set-glyph-8bit 191 8711 'eev-glyph-face-math)
> >
> > _almost_ does the job, but look at the new screenshot - it seems
> > that the `char' argument in `eepitch-set-glyph-8bit' needs some
> > translation too... is that right? Which translation?
> >
> >   Cheers, and thanks in advance again...
> >     Eduardo Ochs
> >     eduardoochs@gmail.com
> >     http://angg.twu.net/#eev