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

[Gregory Heytings]

> There appears to be no easy way to get the old behaviour back, where 
> characters undisplayable on the console got displayed with \ufffd 
> instead.

I have good news for you, there's a way: use fbterm.  Characters that are 
not displayable with the fonts you selected get displayed in with \ufffd 
instead.