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 19:00:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83a67oxssd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> <83o7w4xxhq.fsf@gnu.org> <83k06sxvas.fsf@gnu.org> <83fshgxtyk.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7122"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 18:03:05 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 1oSKka-0001eA-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:03:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKkZ-0007BD-35 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 12:03:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKhO-0005HD-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:59:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51496) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSKhN-0007XK-Lt; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:59:45 -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=bKObtA1xtTPUyUbyPBVmvUSV6UMFw4Xk/b2gITHasPw=; b=TSbKp7rTV0j9 26bHU4o7k1k2+Oe0iTC7RQ2FCDgrDDOVAwpm7mn6co+HrrREaxGOITrRZ4DJtrfyH0pSYtqVWS9eY erCzPYfS2CddSaidtv7qEZzng1sJ6nDGlcZelWA0QlcdU9CIR0d62B8HKxDf6XjDSPjhkP343BSbS nAR2BL+J6MSKIv68lbNKJVaPiJ0xbP/8D66sYEdCyqSMoRqFOp2Qvx9Cc+aUr1ofqiJOKHumlsslt SNJFMO+HO4HmjKMoMUDNAOt2Id/B7ZshmLVTKIqC+skdEQxgabonpK4zYmlwOw+39qTqyaEHTxxwQ 2J9vgi33ca8zUwuDNjgG8w==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1870 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 1oSKhM-0007GV-Pi; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:59:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:53:27 +0000) 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:294254 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 15:53:27 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Well, maybe the situation is not that bad, actually: we'll just waste > > some cycles at info.el startup, to find that all the necessary > > characters are supported if the terminal is fbterm. > > Okay. Do you perhaps have a recipe with which I could check that it's > indeed the case? Start Info in a new session and see how much it takes. Compare the times on the release branch and on master (the change was installed on the branch and was not yet merged to master). > It's unclear to me what problem the patch is fixing. It fixes the problem of the Linux console, which is unable to display the non-ASCII symbols used by Texinfo although terminal-coding-system is UTF-8. For the list of the symbols, see info-symbols-and-replacements.