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: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 03:42:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87leqs6m4l.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67iqo1k.fsf@gnu.org> <87k06m55mw.fsf@disroot.org> <2b564d99d3f609d1af75@heytings.org> <87zgfgvpru.fsf@dataswamp.org> <2b564d99d37a50be72cc@heytings.org> <878rn0vnf4.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83h71ool6q.fsf@gnu.org> <2e25ca87e30a22dd28d9@heytings.org> <874jxh6k9s.fsf@yahoo.com> <83tu5gddky.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6215"; 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:NN3N04QCrsftbEPR/etT6DPaIwc= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 10 07:51:36 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 1oWtOy-0001QD-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 07:51:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60428 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWtOw-0008Rp-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:51:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWpVv-0008QM-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oWpVt-0000yy-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:42:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oWpVr-0002vb-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 03:42:27 +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=0.25, 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-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:47:43 -0400 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:295099 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> That's unlikely (the only known problem is for users who >>> use a mouse, which you said you don't), but even if that >>> were the case, that's how progress goes: leaving a stable >>> position with known problems to reach a position in which >>> some of these problems are solved, while taking the risk >>> of facing other yet unknown problems. >> >> The worst act a software developer can commit is to break >> things for a user who is already comfortable. > > If a user is comfortable with a side effect of a bug, > breaking that is inevitable, as long as we want to fix > a bug. Still, one shouldn't burn down the house to kill the rats ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal