From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:00:56 +0000 Message-ID: <2f302d1c396a00bdc947@heytings.org> References: <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <2f302d1c3966849477b3@heytings.org> <2f302d1c3933a5091b66@heytings.org> <2f302d1c39d838732c24@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17229"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Richard Stallman , eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 02 18:11:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oU9G4-0004Go-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:11:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37688 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU9G3-0000Fb-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU96K-00081v-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:50076) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU96I-00011v-TK; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:01:00 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1662134456; bh=9EQHxTU1c0HmuRJp/YfBeI7kbOeqSZ22mmnfieufv14=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=EJPY1g10kR6cmuXxE/aOjA6rG/v66GppSv88rx8G12hc2BOSYC1uGfjygdqEsLqmk WWCyDGvSzctW9KeWCtqR6iz40lHhyWjjflEgwx2ROSngB9BdmCmlwYxj7KZjaXRx/J 8e8iTja99EtgdZdRF9ndFPIfbOHsgwXqBTI2lOn+qNqJK+M+WRSKX5M4AaAZiy0oeZ OWxyRknevKGE0qVlrZaB0M31LMcLC0z/VBoQk9PYNaDh6DZMYaQrxduhFK8RVYQZd1 ZfxA83ZOOp6U+sXgyylsoJG6RXzK8bKQInRLikHCkI7NwKjYqdL+PRbeRo1sFF76wO B5UKJ1vHmtHTw== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294569 Archived-At: > > I detest anti-aliasing. It makes everything go blurred for me. Maybe > that's a reason why I don't like these fonts. > Well, you can easily turn of anti-aliasing if that's what you prefer: font-names=DejaVu\ Sans\ Mono:antialias=false > > No, I don't know how to take a screen shot of a console. > You can use fbcat. >> I don't know. In any case, that seems to be a very minor problem. > > It's not minor to me. Without GPM, I'd have to alter my workflow > considerably. > Sorry, I don't use GPM. I'm pretty sure it's not hard to fix, however, the manpage of fbterm says "copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running", so it's something that should be feasible somehow. > > I think you said earlier on in the thread that there were "no known > inconveniences" with fbterm. > Yes, at that time there were no known inconveniences. Now there is (perhaps) a minor one with GPM. >> By the way, if you don't want 256 colors and want to use only 8 colors >> as you did before, just don't set TERM=fbterm, or set TERM=linux. > > Well, it's not just as before - as I said earlier, hi-green comes out as > brown. That's the sort of thing I meant when I said that you had to > configure faces. > I don't know what you do exactly, but here (with the latest master or emacs-28): fbterm -- env TERM=fbterm emacs uses 256 colors, and fbterm -- env TERM=linux emacs uses 8 colors.