Subject: bug#48135: 27.1.91; standard-display-table incorrectly initialized in byte compiled code?

From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 12:22:46 +0000

>> A simple workaround is to (require 'disp-table).
>
> Why isn't that a solution?  IOW, why not request that code which does 
> this needs to require disp-table?
>

Yes, I said "workaround", I could have said "solution" ;-)  It makes sense 
indeed to request a require disp-table in such cases, but OTOH I 
understand that seeing byte-compiled code behaving differently from the 
non-byte-compiled one is surprising.