bug#33207: 26.1; Incorrect display of braille unicode

[Eli Zaretskii]

tags 33207 notabug
thanks

> From: Justin Heyes-Jones <justinhj@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:36:31 -0700
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 09:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  > From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
>  > Cc: Justin Heyes-Jones <justinhj@gmail.com>,  33207@debbugs.gnu.org
>  > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:54:31 -0400
>  > 
>  > > Probably macOS specific: that character displays fine on MS-Windows.
>  > 
>  > On my GNU/Linux box with both GTK and Lucid builds, I see that the
>  > blanked dots do show up, similar to what the OP shows in their linked
>  > screenshot.  Interestingly, I *don't* see the blanked dots in the
>  > completion window for C-x 8 RET braille TAB.
> 
>  Indeed, with Unifont I see it here also.  I found one or two other
>  fonts that have the same effect, but most of them display this
>  character as blank.
> 
>  So if a different font works for the OP as well, I think we can
>  conclude that this is a font issue, not an Emacs bug.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this. I wasn't able to get any of the fonts provided 
> with macOS to display the BRAILLE
> characters correctly, but when I downloaded some additional fonts with better 
> unicode support, the characters
> displayed correctly. So I think you're correct, this is not an Emacs bug.

Thanks, so I'm closing the bug.