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

[Visuwesh]

[சனி ஆகஸ்ட் 27, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 12:52:19 +0530
>> 
>> [சனி ஆகஸ்ட் 27, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > We are not going back to the situation where we sent to the Linux
>> > console character codes for which it couldn't produce valid glyphs.
>> > People who suggest sending U+FFFD to the Linux console should first
>> > verify whether the console is capable of displaying that character.
>> > One way of verifying this is to type
>> >
>> >    C-x 8 RET fffd RET
>> >
>> > in an Emacs session which displays on the Linux console, and see if
>> > that shows the diamond-like glyph or the \Unnnn thing.  If it's the
>> > latter, it means the console doesn't support that character, and we
>> > cannot send its code from Emacs.  We should instead send something
>> > else (provided that someone submits patches to send that "something").
>> 
>> It is displayed as a diamond in emacs -Q -nw in a Linux tty here.  I'm
>> on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid.
>
> In what Emacs version?

Master.  emacs-repository-version is "ae2199258f6eba3a8a066616dad1a7bf666ec8be".