bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors

[Wolfgang Jenkner]

On Sat, Jun 06 2015, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> On the Linux console, there are a maximum of 256 glyphs which can be
> displayed (or 512 if you're prepared to do without half of the colours),
> each of which can be assigned to an arbitrary set of unicode characters.
> This limit is a hangover from video hardware made ~30 years ago, and it
> is a shame that it still persists, even on modern software generated
> video.

There are graphical (framebuffer based, no X needed) terminal emulators
for GNU/Linux which don't have this limitation on the number of glyphs,
in particular fbterm is quite nice, see the thread around

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/143665

There's also the newer (and perhaps not so widely available?) kmscon.

(Also, FreeBSD now provides a very capable graphical console out of the
box.)