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: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:39:02 +0000 Message-ID: <2f302d1c3922a2a58c61@heytings.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67iqo1k.fsf@gnu.org> <87k06m55mw.fsf@disroot.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="18656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akib Azmain Turja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 02 14:40:49 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 1oU5yb-0004bX-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33674 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU5ya-0002r1-OK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47036) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU5ww-0001jj-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:49768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oU5wv-0006eR-5o; Fri, 02 Sep 2022 08:39:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1662122342; bh=7guZr6J6uDUPSwnwTPg+HvNejNV/dyvNtLMWGHhg3bM=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=QE9df5jJlRhn42dUSWpIXvx605YcRAlJvnoMwhmwg/qBfj69J0Or1Ar1GTgyXK+dC Ni7hA4OYYS5hcPEBlgJdxZmjkAEoLrJFiysGDtZRvXLXlp12pJ8PPpFWFinaTt5yZJ UoFnZmGJ0VsrLEyHoupeGAbRe9UOmB+7C+NsOIyHsjZBlFDdFgTvvG1RrlNJKxdAi4 GE2fmvLzWkDuZ+pNfTOBKTMx5UoZnCqb5z8SCcGX8oFihYk0HD/7Bid9B2Jy0F5fMM D/NEIU5wjywshERB74aqpFjvqlRfEZSzXxTQfYPc/kq+Zif6EjaCjSpeO7gfpN+g+W yKSqKib5MkF+A== In-Reply-To: <87k06m55mw.fsf@disroot.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:294542 Archived-At: > > Or even better, install X and a terminal emulator and maximize the > terminal emulator window. > If all you need is a terminal, you won't get significantly better results with a terminal emulator under X than with fbterm. > > Now let's come to the point, why switch to fbterm when the Linux console > works? > Because it doesn't work? > > The buggy program (looks like it's Emacs here) should be fixed. > Nonsense. The "buggy" program here is clearly not Emacs. The raw Linux console is simply too limited, by design, and there's little that can be done on the Emacs side to alleviate these limitations.