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

[Gregory Heytings]

> In my experience, they work less well than the fonts for the Linux 
> console.

Your experience is rather short, isn't it?  You objected to that solution 
as soon as it was suggested.  Please try again with a better font.  What 
you see under fbterm is exactly (with respect to fonts) what you would see 
in a terminal emulator under X, including anti-aliasing.

> That was the first one I tried this morning.  I didn't like it.  It's a 
> "spidery" font like all the other ones I have available.

Can you provide a screenshot of Emacs under fbterm with that font and one 
of Emacs in the raw Linux console?  I'm not sure I understant what you 
mean by "spidery".

> I just came across another problem.  The GPM mouse utility won't 
> transfer text between an fbterm console and another console, not even a 
> second fbterm.

I don't know.  In any case, that seems to be a very minor problem.

> I think you were being too positive about the topic, and felt I should 
> express the other side of the argument.

I don't think you are expressing the other side of the argument.  You are 
listing very minor problems (and non-problems, such as when you said that 
"you have to configure faces").

By the way, if you don't want 256 colors and want to use only 8 colors as 
you did before, just don't set TERM=fbterm, or set TERM=linux.