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

[Gregory Heytings]

> All these reservations surely need to go into your entry in the PROBLEMS 
> file.  People run Emacs as root, e.g. for editing configuration files. 
> Do we really expect users to be able to flip setuid bits, or remove 
> SYS_TTY_CONFIG capability?  Myself, I don't even know what the second of 
> these means, though I will examine the thread to try and find out.

I'll add all these details in the FAQ entry.

> OK.  There remains the mystery of why M-: (tty-type) returns "linux" on 
> your system, but "fbterm" on mine.

I guess you're using some modified version of fbterm, some distros provide 
patched versions of the programs they distribute.