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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The diamond is a non-ASCII character, so to display it by default,
  > we'd need to make sure the terminal is capable of displaying it.

  > Also, do you really mean diamond, or do you mean U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
  > CHARACTER (which on GUI display is shown as a diamond with a question
  > mark inside)?

I don't know the difference.
I'm talking about what appears on my screen.

These two lines

> \u2666 ♦        BLACK DIAMOND SUIT
> \u25c8 ◈        WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND

display on my Linux console with a diamond.  The same diamond glyph
that user to represent undisplayable characters.

I like this diamond better than ?.  Maybe that is because ? really
appears in text.

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