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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:27:24 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: acm@muc.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >>>> I just checked again, and list-colors-display only lists eight colors 
> >>>> in a raw Linux console.
> >>>
> >>> What does display-color-cells return in that case?
> >>
> >> 16777216
> >
> > Then I guess linux.el should call the same color setup code as xterm.el 
> > does in this case.
> >
> 
> That's the value I get on my system, is it guaranteed to be the same on 
> other systems?

As long as display-color-cells returns a value greater or equal to 16,
I think the result will be correct for the number of colors actually
supported?  If display-color-cells says 8, then we don't need to do
anything.