Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond

[Yuri Khan]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 at 16:14, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:

> > I do not know the history of replacing an undisplayable
> > character with a diamond. The U+FFFD Replacement Character
> > glyph looks similar, but the cause/consequence link might be
> > in either direction.
>
> Can't we check this with the Emacs source if that's where the
> change happened?

No, because the replacement with diamond happens in the Linux console
no matter if Emacs or something else is running.

    bash$ echo $'\U0001F4A9'
    ♦