From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 15:44:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16194"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 30 17:48:50 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 1oT3Tt-0003uH-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:48:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35076 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oT3Ts-0002YJ-FN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oT3Pz-0000Up-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:45670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oT3Pp-0003wb-1f; Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:44:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1661874274; bh=dmV2xUsUNmEHQOURkj04U3HLKPqsrvIwzqiCHtIK9hw=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=w6oEa9C76pDWh5kPvMEJZenWovrxGG1ZYO2CHMA6cDdOplqK/XYR3HdENdNqiN1X8 3khS0MTFoAnpay1H3TRrQL0NsqmKsZDB4IXD/LCYGt49meLj5pb2A3bLyV1eSbsnW2 N6OS6AxFdCeeHweLRR4PETeVyaFMZypJWOO0QdzzLqiXD1Rgh617MNuTV+fBFqLXby dBeQwBjRp/3gDhFOppApg7DsxjYkU7fVijxfjG7RHgsx/iACkBK24/7uqnwAV7JSse xHMqM3r0AJsGqonMN4VWvRURpp57MPNrHl1vJPKVmVJVwcVNt0zpw6v0yFpZCW/TAx Ws/TSWkHFFZWw== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_INVALID=0.1, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no 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:294354 Archived-At: > > With 255 specified, it would not be adequate. The Linux console handles > the Greek alphabet, the Russian alphabet, and I am not sure what else. > > Using several disjoint ranges could do the job, I suppose, if someone > can tell me how to determine what those ranges should be. > I don't understand why you want to use such a complicated mechanism, when a much simpler and better one is available. Is there a reason why you cannot (or do not want to?) use fbterm?