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

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Fri 02 Sep 2022 at 15:38, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>> Can you provide a screenshot of Emacs under fbterm with that font and one 
>> of Emacs in the raw Linux console?  I'm not sure I understand what you 
>> mean by "spidery".
>
> No, I don't know how to take a screen shot of a console.

One option is something like:

   cat /dev/fb0 >/tmp/a

Another option is the function framebuffer-screenshot in
emacs-framebuffer
https://logand.com/sw/emacs-framebuffer/file/emacs-framebuffer.el.html#l754

>> > I just came across another problem.  The GPM mouse utility won't 
>> > transfer text between an fbterm console and another console, not even a 
>> > second fbterm.
>
>> I don't know.  In any case, that seems to be a very minor problem.
>
> It's not minor to me.  Without GPM, I'd have to alter my workflow
> considerably.

And those dismissed minor problems add up.