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Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Aug 2022 00:04:52 -0400 |
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> The diamond is a non-ASCII character, so to display it by default,
> we'd need to make sure the terminal is capable of displaying it.
> Also, do you really mean diamond, or do you mean U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
> CHARACTER (which on GUI display is shown as a diamond with a question
> mark inside)?
I don't know the difference.
I'm talking about what appears on my screen.
These two lines
> \u2666 ♦ BLACK DIAMOND SUIT
> \u25c8 ◈ WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND
display on my Linux console with a diamond. The same diamond glyph
that user to represent undisplayable characters.
I like this diamond better than ?. Maybe that is because ? really
appears in text.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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