From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:56:20 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23121"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 14:58:11 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 1oRYuX-0005py-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:58:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRYuW-0003ll-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRYt5-0002gZ-9h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:27658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRYt2-0008Nh-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:56:38 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 37791 invoked by uid 3782); 26 Aug 2022 14:56:22 +0200 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15a43.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.90.67]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 14:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7701 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 2022 12:56:20 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Received-SPF: pass client-ip=193.149.48.3; envelope-from=acm@muc.de; helo=mail.muc.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:294157 Archived-At: Hello, Gregory. On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 09:58:23 +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote: > > The text-based Linux console is unable to display many Unicode > > characters. > Did you try to use fbterm? Most Unicode should be displayed correctly. A problem with this terminal emulator (along, it seems, with most others) is that it steals key sequnces which Emacs needs. Amongst those which fbterm's author thought would never be used by a user are C- and C-M-k. Maybe fbterm has a way of freeing up these key sequences (I didn't get that far into its FAQ), but I doubt it. That would make it not very useful for running Emacs on. Shame. If only these terminal emulators could restrict themselves to "standard" key sequences, I suspect they would have become more prevelant than they have. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).