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: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87bks77azu.fsf@gmail.com> <83zgfr1nnh.fsf@gnu.org> 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="35705"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: kevin.legouguec@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 06:07:09 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 1oS9Zk-00091P-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51152 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9Zj-0000R7-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XZ-0006dC-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XY-0008Nj-R3; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=IxIhk6PzLhW5yUXgWMqjt3HMXCxYPkDrYlkBtAdv9hI=; b=GBH24vaPcP8g Os5OWr97cdWsul2TWv/xVP0E/p0HD8ShhxLwgmsDoKq1MH5qJvjo5FZ8u0QloIRX7e5+l+iI866al w5OogoMcnRPMSjf7yrLgoRbxwQWpW0aC8dJUuH2uq3aDoLMO9xE1cAX5ZsqcQTrD780B9y9TN7A0V K4OXEELrL0otURQpvG8qPHurT/5dBsqq9vszDc3FWaH2nvdPXnWy1xL8HJIIM9p6a0uEBmv1dCT4F v1RJcYis/4ppse8Y0WbSystBBHk8bidVv44sr9/s9ur0JZ3ahqAv7Klka37m5PeCvMpG7pAaS81MU ubwz4NRZWsCgz7ojJXCisg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XY-0003zt-3d; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83zgfr1nnh.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 10:15:14 +0300) 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:294199 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 diamond is a non-ASCII character, so to display it by default, > we'd need to make sure the terminal is capable of displaying it. > Also, do you really mean diamond, or do you mean U+FFFD REPLACEMENT > CHARACTER (which on GUI display is shown as a diamond with a question > mark inside)? I don't know the difference. I'm talking about what appears on my screen. These two lines > \u2666 ♦ BLACK DIAMOND SUIT > \u25c8 ◈ WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND display on my Linux console with a diamond. The same diamond glyph that user to represent undisplayable characters. I like this diamond better than ?. Maybe that is because ? really appears in text. -- 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)