From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 23:13:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87y1v1xywo.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <2f302d1c3966849477b3@heytings.org> <83mtbiovzr.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67hq3l7.fsf@gnu.org> <878rn1zk52.fsf@dataswamp.org> <2f302d1c39aad333be6d@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38698"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rhz1O70mB1OukZc/q7CETex7oP0= Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 03 01:02:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1oUFgQ-0009tb-0A for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2022 01:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53042 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUFgH-0002o9-NS for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUE58-0008RG-B4 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oUE56-0003y5-71 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oUE53-0007Vd-2x for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 23:20:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io 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, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:02:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:909 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: >>> I understand (academically) that once someone has adapted >>> themselves to a particular set of bugs, shortcomings, and >>> limitations >> >> But here the bug was actually better from our perspective ... > > In which case you still have at least two possibilities: > > 1. Use an earlier version of Emacs in which that bug > is present. > > 2. Build your own patched Emacs in which that bug > is restored. With this (set-char-table-extra-slot glyphless-char-display 0 "%") and the latest change to not get the brackets for a single char its pretty equivalent but the diamond was slightly better since the percent sign (%) is a common char that is used not all the time maybe but often enough. The with the yellow face it isn't a problem, really. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal