52.11.3 Character Descriptors

Each element of the display-table vector describes how to display a particular character and is called a character descriptor. A character descriptor can be:

a string

Display this particular string wherever the character is to be displayed.

a glyph

Display this particular glyph wherever the character is to be displayed.

a vector

The vector may contain strings and/or glyphs. Display the elements of the vector one after another wherever the character is to be displayed.

nil

Display according to the standard interpretation (see Usual Display).