Re: evaluating numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 09:36:32 +0900
> 
> What's the rationale behind limiting it to ascii and not to 0 displayed 
> characters ?

Any font used by Emacs for the default face will always be able to
support ASCII characters, but that is not necessarily true for
non-ASCII, not even for Latin (although in practice most if not all
fonts do support the Latin-1 Supplement block.

> Are there use cases where displaying an ascii character when evaluating an 
> integer is more important than displaying an "é" ?

This isn't about importance, this is about potential slowdown in
displaying a simple integer result because Emacs needs to look for a
suitable font.