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.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:56:26 +0200 Message-ID: <878rmrl1lx.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67iqo1k.fsf@gnu.org> <87k06m55mw.fsf@disroot.org> <2b564d99d3f609d1af75@heytings.org> <87zgfgvpru.fsf@dataswamp.org> <2b564d99d37a50be72cc@heytings.org> <878rn0vnf4.fsf@dataswamp.org> <83h71ool6q.fsf@gnu.org> <2e25ca87e30a22dd28d9@heytings.org> <874jxh6k9s.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24181"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:A+w9mF8vRQTWP9tU4f3hu/6BQ/o= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 10 17:01:12 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 1oX1yq-00067Y-4w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 17:01:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37344 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oX1yp-0005Au-8f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:01:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oX1uO-0003qx-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:40990) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oX1uM-0001lu-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oX1uL-0000op-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2022 16:56:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@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: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 10:59:45 -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:295128 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: > Here's a (real) story. A program for a certain task is > awfully slow, it takes ten to fifteen minutes to finish that > task, and the computer on which it runs becomes almost > unusable during that time. It is made faster, and now takes > at most a few seconds for that same task. Its end users are > not at all happy with that improvement: they were > comfortable with the slow program, because it was a good > reason/excuse to take yet another break in their workday. ??? What does this refer to, did the method that showed the diamonds in the Linux VTs do that for certain chars? If so, I never experienced it, but good that you fixed it obviously. But please explain why is it so difficult to setup the mere _interface_ aspect, which is the representation of undisplayable chars, so that it can be configured to non-ASCII chars as well? (setq undisplayable-char-char CHAR) Char? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal