From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:22:02 +0300 Message-ID: <834jxxymbp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10946"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 07:23:26 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 1oSAlZ-0002hG-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 07:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43832 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSAlY-0003JM-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSAjz-0002W1-Ok for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSAjz-0001mp-3O; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:21:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Tc/oZgJ7sEZeaMa8NqwVNJJ6QqynqQU7wKrwZlFBzR0=; b=DLVt/JFf6dmz NsuD8Ag/PLcNSxW9NimSAONDafwIcXpO7euCUeX33O7Az5Mw8zkArOI1FGOxu8e9TTEG/g5kf+bgN BbeeTnIaVr4vTSW6nxmPHq2JtUKcQYkMB5cmAsmlK6Q1DdPBCI7Qw6zDiXCi6Acd6DHlV7uJ3mtrP QmJTW0tghzWwEH3/ohk2JT00TjFoq8jHVZCOV/pbSB7sxC590cPV7nqLz21tM5+Hg4Y4CYiB5PdQX okW7fvNKtRUMBWtsU52TeeokKPcyOmZfKSmeKAUVrazhkcOOXLLYwf98RVQEVRkvrxJUqk6wBfpoR ey0/H26fe6eGmjMSd6FdxQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSAjy-0003bu-1P; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:21:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400) 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:294205 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 > > > It disturbs me most whilst reading info. Modern versions of makeinfo > > generate Unicode punctuation characters, and having them displayed on > > the screen as \Uxxxx completely screws up the alignment these characters > > are meant to achieve (for example). > > Can we modify info.el so as to display those characters > as the curresponding ASCII punctuation characters? It already does, where an ASCII equivalent exists. See info-symbols-and-replacements. Alan didn't report any details, so I don't have any idea why it doesn't work for him (if indeed it doesn't).