A glyph table is a Lisp object used to define a mapping between the characters which may occur in a buffer (anything with a numeric value between 0 and 255 inclusive) and the sequences of glyphs which are drawn into a window to represent these characters.
A glyph is a image which, when rendered into the display, takes up one character position. Each character in a buffer is rendered as a sequence of 1 or more glyphs.
t when its argument is a glyph table.
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