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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Gregory.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 20:09:28 +0000, Gregory Heytings wrote:

> >>> That means either that you're running fbterm and Emacs as root, or 
> >>> that fbterm is installed with a setuid bit or has the SYS_TTY_CONFIG 
> >>> capability, which you can remove (see upthread).

> >> Isn't there some way to explicitly request the "unprivileged" mode of 
> >> operation (e.g. with a command line arg, config file setting, you name 
> >> it) so it also applies when the application does have the needed 
> >> privilege (e.g. when running as root)?

> > No, there isn't.


> Of course there is.  All details are in the new FAQ node that will be 
> installed after being reviewed.

OK, I was wrong.  Thanks for the education!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).