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Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond
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Gregory Heytings |
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Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond |
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 11:39:04 +0000 |
Well, actually instead of 16, since all the colours come in a normal and
a bright version.
Are these "bright" versions used by Emacs? I don't think so.
But these 256 colours will be getting used, and that means work
configuring faces that are not satisfactory to the user in the 256
colour version.
What do you mean? It's not more necessary to configure faces in a
terminal than to configure faces under X. If you don't like the defaults,
you can configure them, that's all.
Here's the rub. The "pixelated" fonts were designed to be used in, say,
an 8x16 matrix, and work very well indeed. The "modern" fonts were
designed to be used in X, and work less well in fbterm on a pixelated
grid.
Not if you use monospaced fonts, which were designed to be used in
terminals.
All of the "modern" fonts available for fbterm on my machine are
"spidery" single pixel thick fonts. On the lat1-16 font I've been using
in consoles for decades, the lines are two pixels thick. I find this
much more readable.
Well, install another font? I'd recommend DejaVu Sans Mono.
There are several. As mentioned above, you have to configure faces,
possibly a lot of them.
That's incorrect. You don't have to configure any faces, they come
preconfigured, just like they are preconfigured under X and for a raw
Linux console.
There are all the problems with fonts. You've got to remember to hack
the fbterm binary each time a new version of fbterm comes out (unless
you've got a system like Gentoo, and arrange for this to happen
automatically).
If you follow the instructions in the FAQ entry, you won't have to
remember any such hacks.
I will probably continue using the plain Linux console, for all these
reasons.
You are of course free to do what you want, but you should not discourage
others to try it.
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- 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, 2022/09/06
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/09/02