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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 16:07:54 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Start Info in a new session and see how much it takes.  Compare the 
> > times on the release branch and on master (the change was installed on 
> > the branch and was not yet merged to master).
> 
> There is no visible difference here, starting Info takes ~60 ms with and 
> without the patch.
> 
> >> It's unclear to me what problem the patch is fixing.
> >
> > It fixes the problem of the Linux console, which is unable to display 
> > the non-ASCII symbols used by Texinfo although terminal-coding-system is 
> > UTF-8.  For the list of the symbols, see info-symbols-and-replacements.
> 
> Thanks, I see curly quotes and quotation marks inside Info with the patch, 
> so it works as expected.

OK, thanks.  I guess my worries about the change are unjustified,
then.