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Display Tables
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   You can use the "display table" feature to control how all possible
character codes display on the screen.  This is useful for displaying
European languages that have letters not in the ASCII character set.

   The display table maps each character code into a sequence of
"glyphs", each glyph being a graphic that takes up one character
position on the screen.  You can also define how to display each glyph
on your terminal, using the "glyph table".

   Display tables affect how the mode line is displayed; if you want to
force redisplay of the mode line using a new display table, call
`force-mode-line-update' (Note: Mode Line Format).

Display Table Format

What a display table consists of.

Active Display Table

How Emacs selects a display table to use.

Glyphs

How to define a glyph, and what glyphs mean.