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: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 14:37:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83zgfnwa9k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> <87a67oxhfb.fsf@dataswamp.org> <837d2rxqmx.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1686"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 13:39:42 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 1oSd7G-0000D6-B8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:39:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53872 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSd7F-0007dn-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSd51-0006eM-Jm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSd50-00041Y-OS; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:37:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=AxAkR1fL/MLa68W8CJ44qpH+OFgZAg9KSrorJp2U3/w=; b=NAaoXXjTtb7NQgbaVynu /q8B5UW34iWZtTdERhaN54az2+MZJ8okWk24j60dFZBHVO3wQCbiw1G8nCFEH//MyxSMg71FejpyP RHGVoJr4/SRSPPml4ykZZ+iR/dUj3soiUWtnB3r/h2haMRZScRptZcx55dlkdVaEZyNvKzK3eRCaR TZ51ZzT1fya4TLLEbionErDTVYLOFpr9CEAswX6+RFKs+ubjn+qUOnus+TuytArMZZf+Qd4WB188q 7Q4loCzadMMBteVM3JaRV0ZPaWHPQoLxElSlK3v41lug8sxFhZSS/IfdnWKs4BTkLWVpF/6hnDlsK TseabrZ8pEPsdw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2040 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 1oSd50-0001Nv-7j; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:37:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:26:00 +0700) 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:294281 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:26:00 +0700 > Cc: Emanuel Berg , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 18:00, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > No text terminal can support all the key combinations a GUI > > > > display can. > > > > > > Why ever not? > > > > Because not every combination can be expressed as a character code. > > Kitty manages to represent a lot of key combinations in its > [comprehensive key protocol][1]. Someone™ could implement that in > fbterm, too. Kitty isn't a console program, it's a terminal emulator running on X. That's not what I described, nor is it what we are discussing here.