From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87edx3h0qu.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <834jxz33m9.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="7854"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pYiKmu9W2I7AQTx64u2jWqQMD5g= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 10:24:49 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 1oRUe0-0001qI-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:24:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40274 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRUdz-0005Zl-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRUcm-000417-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRUck-0000V0-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 04:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRUch-000062-Km for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:23:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no 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:294136 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Nor a way to go back to the old behavior. Is there a way? >> If not, would people please create a way? > > What would you want Emacs to do instead? Writing a code of > an unsupported character to a text-mode terminal is out of > the question: it can easily mess up the entire display. > What else is possible that would satisfy you? The old way was better as it was less disruptive in size and color and didn't mess up alignment/indentation. As for what char it was, it looked like these two - and they look the same in a Linux VT - \u2666 ♦ BLACK DIAMOND SUIT \u25c8 ◈ WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal