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Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond |
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Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:13:12 -0400 |
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> > Eli said it would be difficult to reliably display undisplayable
> > characters as diamond _on all consoles_. But I contend that it is not
> > hard to implement an option to do this _on Linux consoles_.
> > Eli, is there something difficult about that?
> Yes: I know of no way of identifying such a console except by its
> name. And hard-coding a name of a specific console into our code is
> inelegant at best.
We are having two miscommunications here.
I did not have in mind that Emacs should automatically identify
Linux consoles or distinguish them from other text consoles. Rather, the
feature should _reliably display diamonds_ on Linux consoles. I can easily
make my .emacs file determine whether Emacs is on a Linux console in a way
that is reliable _in my case_, and enable this feature only in that case.
> More generally, I have no reason to believe that the "feature" of the
> Linux console whereby it accepts _any_ UTF-8 encoded character and
> displays the U+FFFD "diamond" replacement for those it has no glyphs,
> is rock-solid enough.
There is no need to set the requirement that high. If it works for
user U, that's good enough.
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- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, (continued)
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/07
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/08
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/09
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/09
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/10
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/06
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/07
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/03
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Emanuel Berg, 2022/09/06
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Richard Stallman, 2022/09/07
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02
- Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/02