From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:41:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23652"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: gregory@heytings.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 12:42:32 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 1oSFkN-0005wn-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32880 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSFkM-0005Vz-92 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSFj7-0004kr-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSFj7-0002dw-1s; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:41:13 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=GUvB6kIohn29Dp2t51xPy6JsTwUzHQ35gKDrsyO2XN8=; b=Ki7+aSx7IEZa joPZMcsadyVZjYLYbR1QO3YIWPy6zeGlxBG2M+NvhOAJuFzFj/JOxMX/CHVwpBmlitpScT/IPvhin 0ZYPIVFVxSIIZepc5pSA6dg1fzPIAQPXeOxHnSBxZ7cwkanMncZhzZxOPtcVb5ldOZNYCOdkUn/EE qQeQHILMqquhpa11NrKbYaHtZ8lw1R2aNRPllQav1zy0LojmAeg8yW3F8WCFeOZXa6Ocz/yGl6ZDf Xw0/NRfgIFFaFf5S/3AG1YFUkanNz1tTjIGietJo00hBktIIuJa+p02Gs+dpXg5kjcWjrMz/KA/1W +ihpNVjAuJAial8fvEVF3w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2175 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSFj5-0006Zf-Pa; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:41:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:35:22 +0000) 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:294232 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:35:22 +0000 > Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > I've tried fbterm out, thanks! It comes up in a font which is too small > for me, but that is easily remedied in the configuration file ~/.fbterm. > > Indeed it doesn't steal C- or C-M-k, but it does take some other > bindings like C-/C-. I don't think there's an option in > fbterm to leave all key sequences alone. No text terminal can support all the key combinations a GUI display can. Many terminals don't support C- either (xterm is one such prominent example). So this shouldn't prevent you from using this console. > At the moment, I'm not sure whether I will end up using it or not. > Probably not. Why not? The Linux console is abysmally inadequate for Emacs, from where I stand.