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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 17:18:25 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:00:44 +0000
> > From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> > cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org

> > > Why not?  The Linux console is abysmally inadequate for Emacs, from 
> > > where I stand.

> > Indeed.  It's not clear to me why we are having this discussion.  With 
> > fbterm, the Linux console is on the par with most terminal emulators. 
> > FTR, here are two screenshots of Emacs' HELLO file, one with Emacs running 
> > in a raw console, and one with Emacs running inside fbterm.

> > Eli, is the attached patch okay?  Or is there a better place for that 
> > information (efaq.texi, perhaps?)?

> I think both?

> For PROBLEMS, the entry is OK, but please change "it is recommended"
> to say "we recommend".

> Btw, does fbterm warrant or need a file in lisp/term/ ?

> And what does tty-type return when running Emacs on fbterm?

On my system, it returns "fbterm".

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).