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-rw-r--r--lisp/disp-table.el5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/disp-table.el b/lisp/disp-table.el
index df171e17190..cb9325fd771 100644
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@@ -179,7 +179,10 @@ X frame."
(defun standard-display-european (arg &optional auto)
"Toggle display of European characters encoded with ISO 8859.
When enabled, characters in the range of 160 to 255 display not
-as octal escapes, but as accented characters.
+as octal escapes, but as accented characters. Codes 146 and 160
+display as apostrophe and space, even though they are not the ASCII
+codes for apostrophe and space.
+
With prefix argument, enable European character display iff arg is positive.
Normally, this function turns off `enable-multibyte-characters'