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 17:18:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83o7w4xxhq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tu5wy7jb.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40024"; 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 16:18:46 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 1oSJ7e-000AI8-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:18:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43738 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSJ7c-0005Gv-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41648) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSJ73-0004cW-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSJ72-0002Ww-Mb; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:18:08 -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=Wyhl4CzLrPjYG746l4B6F+07crHBUUuMACIlHZPrHFE=; b=jvWpFycDB8Gj hlK0zQ9/bsXY/P6QbP2on2t4eiZQwzJAZJplSkrrJJ+KwU4AUAiUBiN7JxKJpuuMVGvHhsxf+tn/a 4gAgyDP0XZvLBCT/kqQa1p4cqyubVQwWz2bHrEY8/2kX/vWS4clJ8y9O1wx3ENRKXQx0/XPJTrYlW A/TMDBmsmZyo+1qNrB5EjjVf+5YstNXRcU2ZYoGyZpRo2hDE9C9Q9bdKXIgkrL5qOqdlWbCWJPW9T +Uo40ySrPQydHqMiMF3fJJIgIAfYjPQ3JTU/w2JjQVWe4vBQR8cTvJKcYYpi+u9rMDBTU9D/t8Mn4 Z5cHFZ8tOuC5kOxSrBmVkA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3458 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 1oSJ71-0007V9-0M; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:18:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:00:44 +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:294238 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:00:44 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: Alan Mackenzie , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Why not? The Linux console is abysmally inadequate for Emacs, from > > where I stand. > > Indeed. It's not clear to me why we are having this discussion. With > fbterm, the Linux console is on the par with most terminal emulators. > FTR, here are two screenshots of Emacs' HELLO file, one with Emacs running > in a raw console, and one with Emacs running inside fbterm. > > Eli, is the attached patch okay? Or is there a better place for that > information (efaq.texi, perhaps?)? I think both? For PROBLEMS, the entry is OK, but please change "it is recommended" to say "we recommend". Btw, does fbterm warrant or need a file in lisp/term/ ? And what does tty-type return when running Emacs on fbterm?