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: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:01:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2f302d1c3966849477b3@heytings.org> <83mtbiovzr.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67hq3l7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtbhneht.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="777"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gregory@heytings.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 05 06:08:50 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 1oV3Pm-000AZ2-3b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 06:08:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53160 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3Pk-0005EC-1U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:08:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3JA-0002l4-Df for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3J9-0008Ri-1a; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:01:59 -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=b2L3A8q+rnDlhKMFhbkA7ASsgNV0rWNP0igS77ix2iE=; b=qevhGijYRAc3 p2b5ECawN4HQWPLnHrISWff9yoQAhFIBFfecajFK2JJSw84P3wSj4wrOM+Hs+9Dp7Lb1te1Xk/Cwi bdOk5OL0waal0W6AGVPAMY6M7gHDJ/tArY2NI6X/VjbSAI3CeLUkD6tgkIkz6VjLn720SdWgAZn/G EBlf1k/zcIRXhqOe4KXe71P8FSD6feuPRQlOkgRnF8FzQu0Wy3MMZweInnMBCeE5uUggFDncQxfQN Phx/BKNmUwe17bRPNk/4O0YaQy1MYA9dgAvgfMt4koVNy6BYkXg+bSGXzIIw26ye9q56d4j7eepjT 7KejD+pVw90wlhp6U6JA9g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oV3J8-0006mA-7w; Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:01:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 4 Sep 2022 11:23:43 +0000) 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:294720 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. ]]] > I envisage having a minor mode specific to the Linux console, which when > enabled for the first time will do the loop over all Unicode characters > testing them for glyps, and create the display table. This can then be > stored in .emacs in the customisation section. When the mode is > enabled, this display table will be used to output the \ufffd's. Thank you. If using display tables is a convenient way to implement this feature, I have no complaints about using that. -- 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)