From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev@sange.fi>
Cc: 50865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50865: 28.0.50; Emoji with emoji modifier in Linux console garbles emacs display
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:00:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7e3iljt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6jw8mq2.fsf@sange.fi> (message from Aura Kelloniemi on Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:32:53 +0300)
> From: Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev@sange.fi>
> Cc: 50865@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:32:53 +0300
>
> On 2021-09-28 at 21:35 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > That should not be that way. Some characters are double-width, and
> > should take up 2 columns on display.
>
> I noticed, that Linux console does not understand most of the zero-width
> characters either.
It doesn't need to: Emacs displays those characters on a TTY as
spaces.
> It happily prints most of the code points in the list of
> zero-width characters. Of course they are printed just as diamonds, because
> Linux cannot store enough glyphs in its 512-glyph font space, but anyway it
> prints a diamond for such characters as <COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT>.
COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT (or any other combining codepoint) is not a
good example of zero-width characters. Try "C-x 8 RET 200c RET"
instead. Or FEFF or 1D173 or E007f or 1BCA0.
> The character range \y200B-\u200F seems to be an exception here. When I try to
> print one of these characters on a Linxu VT, it really prints nothing.
That's not exception, that's the rule, actually, for true zero-width
characters, not for accents. Accents exist to combine with preceding
base character, and what you seem to describe means the Linux console
is unable to do even Latin accents?
> When I insert zero-width characters in Emacs, the diamonds representing the
> characters are printed interspersed by the padding spaces added by emacs. The
> cursor is left behind the extending line of characters as a type, because
> Emacs thinks, that the zero-width characters really do not print anything,
> even though they do.
Is this with or without auto-composition-mode?
> I believe that the one viable solution is to make char-width-table a terminal
> local variable, so that there can be a simplified version for terminals that
> don't understand Unicode correctly.
That would affect much more than display, because Emacs consults that
table for other purposes. We need something limited to display alone.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 14:11 bug#50865: 28.0.50; Emoji with emoji modifier in Linux console garbles emacs display Aura Kelloniemi
2021-09-28 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 16:54 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-09-28 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 17:41 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-09-28 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 19:20 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-09-28 20:32 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-09-29 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-01 13:23 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-10-01 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 14:33 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-10-01 15:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-01 16:02 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-10-01 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-02 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-02 11:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-02 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 12:25 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-10-04 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 16:51 ` Aura Kelloniemi
2021-10-04 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-02 12:31 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-02 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 13:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-10-02 8:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-02 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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