Re: bug of display-table & make-glyph-code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:31:12 -0400
> 
>     If after deleting them one can still set up the display table to send
>     a string when a certain character needs to be displayed, I'm okay with
>     that change.
> 
> create-glyph is the feature used for that.
> Do you use that feature?  If so, what do you use it for?

term/internal.el uses multi-character glyphs to display characters
that are not supported by the available character set.  But it doesn't
use create-glyph, it sets up display-table so that some characters are
displayed as strings of other characters.

> As a separate feature, you can use display-table to display a
> character code as a series of glyphs.  But each of those glyphs
> is supposed to occupy one space on the screen.

It works as expected even if they occupy more than one screen space.

So I think create-glyph is not important for internal.el.