On 10 February 2016 at 10:07, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:


> > You seem to be trying to prove we can't do this for ALL the Unicode
> > characters, but I never said we could do them all.  Doing it for just
> > some characters will be useful.
>
> I was kidding about emoji.
>
> (You might be confusing me with someone else who spoke against
> your idea of ASCII representations.)
>

I know this can't be used in a summary screen containing more than one
character, but how about drawing a bitmap version of the character? If you
use a, say, 32×32 grid you can represent pretty much anything. I can
envision this being a useful thing to include in the C-u C-x = output.

At least this would allow a user on an ASCII terminal (or even one on a
graphical terminal with incomplete fonts) to see what a character looks
like.