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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:294183 Archived-At: [=E0=AE=9A=E0=AE=A9=E0=AE=BF =E0=AE=86=E0=AE=95=E0=AE=B8=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=9F= =E0=AF=8D 27, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote: > We are not going back to the situation where we sent to the Linux > console character codes for which it couldn't produce valid glyphs. > People who suggest sending U+FFFD to the Linux console should first > verify whether the console is capable of displaying that character. > One way of verifying this is to type > > C-x 8 RET fffd RET > > in an Emacs session which displays on the Linux console, and see if > that shows the diamond-like glyph or the \Unnnn thing. If it's the > latter, it means the console doesn't support that character, and we > cannot send its code from Emacs. We should instead send something > else (provided that someone submits patches to send that "something"). It is displayed as a diamond in emacs -Q -nw in a Linux tty here. I'm on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid.