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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > That means either that you're running fbterm and Emacs as root, or 
> > > that fbterm is installed with a setuid bit or has the SYS_TTY_CONFIG 
> > > capability, which you can remove (see upthread).
> >
> > Isn't there some way to explicitly request the "unprivileged" mode of 
> > operation (e.g. with a command line arg, config file setting, you name 
> > it) so it also applies when the application does have the needed 
> > privilege (e.g. when running as root)?
>
> No, there isn't.

Of course there is.  All details are in the new FAQ node that will be 
installed after being reviewed.