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 12:11:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87wnave2lq.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34070"; 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: sha1:5pqC69eZCDacEcCi5BSSi1yUDsU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 12:20:53 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 1oRWSK-0008k0-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45140 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRWSF-0002jA-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRWJR-0004Rt-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRWJO-0000On-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRWJM-0007AB-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:11:36 +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:294152 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: >> The text-based Linux console is unable to display many >> Unicode characters. > > Did you try to use fbterm? Most Unicode should be > displayed correctly. For the record not this one, that is \U01F3A8. But even so, then one has to redo everything, even the cursor underscore starts blinking again ... That could be interesting of course but why can't we just have an option with Emacs of one prefers the old "all-diamond" bahvior? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal