From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:33:57 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30507"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 05:34:54 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 1oRQ7S-0007l7-JX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:34:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50268 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRQ7R-0002La-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRQ6Y-0001ew-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRQ6Y-0000Fn-1k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:33:58 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:Subject:To:From:mime-version:in-reply-to: references; bh=u7jbEt9Q+FK6pmW59BhmN9WfE5OMJ/GfJfBxBndaRX0=; b=TSSg6m3ooIP0EM 80fFtre9F8XNZUFT13zI1MejDVoqCSBSZNl7O/Hsiola9MBrrXiSsjZr4+gft/08n6M0gVKj70SBJ wBFBSNhfh7NTlzUviXNGHJD/gkZz8c6PFRCOETweTFd+Q1ZrwC6NJKZc7AHbissEf2meA77Y516vN PopPllcKSOkRVNgnMa6JK/odkxfT69BUKAUa3mpduT3wEBz3SH/mKL6+NtBK/vVjnRZ/5jfVBzq5a o/n1BsNTNakfiiHbRTSRpWVfhS9qyXzJgy0YlR+nuQKWBEpMpJo3qhq5Gd9qQUO6XEue5FCfSxfBj z+faIOxHe7vj7GiOT5xA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRQ6X-0007In-OK; Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:33:57 -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:294120 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] 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. 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 last built the sources in May. Has this changed in a significant way since then? I could not find, in NEWS, anything about this change -- it ought to be in NEWS . Nor a way to go back to the old behavior. Is there a way? If not, would people please create a way? As a separate question, do users generally like this change? Would it be better to return to the old diamond method as the default? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)