From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35397"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 06:07:08 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 1oS9Zk-00091A-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:07:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9Zi-0000R0-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:07:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51810) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9Xa-0006dh-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59610) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XZ-0008Ns-Ax; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=KX1OoNa+U4Sgaf5FcE6iVxNnqtiamCPX5d2vPp0BMuM=; b=nNTsvQ/eIyz9 HAJ82UdgTikJJLrQiX2IsLE1HWZ6LipREqjybZ/DaSbeHGHJySEKAmMyillLs5LIUTTXNNDqFXn2A rJpgyDkKBAtn4UkFW9JNEc5h2wmj1dLULKj696nQX96jzON+niVlO52b0XvJtM4+qEXuZlOqR5pir DGc09VNZruOIykaPwq5n4rg4cne3iZDQpvfIm7fj9KU31tYbtjukYGdaiVMOQFcl+Frg8d09NTZ3A gpH6kRmpDYteC2+syubJEKxVgZuS08x5aGIEQD0pbNkhqH28YsecDolPsfaUUM5y1kwdpfx3z+sXW 7Rr0z6+UQxu0IPOy4JT40w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oS9XZ-000409-25; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 26 Aug 2022 21:45:15 +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:294197 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)