From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:36:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1oSVZB-0008Vf-1X@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:44:42 +0600)
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> Anyway,
> I workarounded it by modifying glyphless-char-display with the following
> in terminal buffers:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (set-char-table-extra-slot glyphless-char-display 0 'thin-space)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> This shows a single space character.
Could a variant of that display a diamond instead of a space?
Eli wrote
> 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.
but what is so bad about sending a glyph that the terminal can't
display? What bad results does it cause?
Or how about fixing it by sending an official code for that diamond glyph?
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2022-08-26 3:33 Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Richard Stallman
2022-08-26 5:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 8:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 8:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:05 ` Yuri Khan
2022-08-26 9:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:28 ` Yuri Khan
2022-08-26 9:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:50 ` Yuri Khan
2022-08-26 9:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-28 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 6:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 7:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 7:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 7:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 6:52 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-08-26 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-26 8:37 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 8:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-08-26 9:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 17:41 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2022-08-26 19:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-28 5:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 9:58 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-26 10:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 10:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-26 11:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-26 12:15 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-26 12:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-26 13:29 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 10:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 13:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 14:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 15:18 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 15:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 16:07 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 20:07 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-29 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 18:48 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 15:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 15:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 15:46 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 16:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 16:53 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-28 18:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-08-28 18:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 20:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 20:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 20:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 14:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 14:59 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-28 20:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-29 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 11:26 ` Yuri Khan
2022-08-29 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-29 12:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 12:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-26 21:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-26 22:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-27 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 7:22 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-27 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 10:43 ` Visuwesh
2022-08-28 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-28 5:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 10:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 11:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-28 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 13:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-08-27 5:44 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-08-27 7:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-08-27 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 17:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-27 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-27 21:50 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 2:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-28 5:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-28 6:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-27 17:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-29 3:36 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-08-29 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-08-30 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 12:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-30 15:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-08-31 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-31 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-31 3:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-08-31 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-01 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-01 23:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-01 23:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-02 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 12:21 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-02 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 12:39 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-03 3:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 6:35 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-03 6:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03 8:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 8:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03 9:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 9:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 12:48 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-08 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-08 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-08 9:14 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-09 3:03 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-09 7:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-09 8:10 ` Po Lu
2022-09-09 10:08 ` Emanuel Berg
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2022-09-09 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-09 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-09-10 15:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-09 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 15:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-10 14:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-09 10:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 9:17 ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-03 9:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03 9:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 9:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 9:40 ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-03 9:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 10:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 12:47 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-09-05 2:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-05 6:08 ` enum (was: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond) Emanuel Berg
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2022-09-05 4:05 ` Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Richard Stallman
2022-09-05 4:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-03 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-02 7:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-02 11:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-02 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-09-02 13:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-02 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 16:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-02 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-03 5:27 ` Tomas Hlavaty
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2022-09-04 13:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-02 19:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-03 2:51 ` Richard Stallman
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2022-09-04 11:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-04 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 18:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2022-09-06 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
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2022-09-05 4:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-05 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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