Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

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> The text-based Linux console is unable to display many
> Unicode characters. In Emacs 29, display of undisplayable
> characters has changed. It used to show them with a diamond.
> Now it shows the unicode character code as hex, preceded by
> \U.
>
> I find that change quite inconvenient. It makes the text
> harder to read.

100% Annoying, serves no purpose what I can see and messes
up alignment/indentation, even.

> Showing the codes does no good, since I don't know these
> codes, not even for characters I am familiar with. To find
> out what character a code represents, I have to use C-u C-x
> =, just as I did before.

I have some code, here

  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/char.el

which doesn't bring up the *Help* buffer but echoes the char's
names (new and old, often, e.g. / is

  solidus (old: slash) (at point: 1308)

so yes, we're all old-school I think ...

Anyway ... one could bind that to just a single key,
optimally, or even do with the idle timer (it could be
instructed so if the key is showable in the Linux VT it
wouldn't echo anything).

Also, those chars shouldn't be everywhere anyway, right?

But I agree diamonds were much neater and low-key ...

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