bug#33688: UTF symbols in 25.2.2 under Ubuntu

[Sergei Meshveliani]

On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 08:09 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Sergei Meshveliani <mechvel@botik.ru>
> > Cc: 33688@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:56:29 +0300
> > 
> > > > But emacs draws the part `>' of the arrow inside B, so that the string
> > > > looks like
> > > >                     A-B
> > > > 
> > > > , and with with a certain garbage inside B. 
> > > 
> > > If you go to that character between A and B, and type "C-u C-x =",
> > > what does Emacs display in the *Help* buffer?  Please post the entire
> > > contents of the *Help* buffer you get.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I print below what is shown in Debian + GNU Emacs 23.2.1
> > and
> >                             in Ubuntu 18.04 + GNU Emacs 25.2. 
> 
> This shows that Emacs produces the same codepoints and the same byte
> sequences in both cases.  It also shows that you are working on a text
> terminal frame (as opposed to a GUI frame), where display of
> characters is performed by the console or a terminal emulator.  So I
> think either the terminal emulators used on the two systems are
> different, or there's some problem with the newer version of the
> terminal emulator or fonts used by that emulator.
> 
> IOW, this doesn't seem to be an Emacs problem, but a problem with
> terminal emulator and/or fonts used by the terminal emulator.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


I am sorry, I have forgotten of how do I call emacs!
I called it via alias as
                          emacs -nw

I Debian + emacs 23..  it works fine, 
but not in Ubuntu 18.04 + emacs 25.2.

Now, if I call it simply by
                            emacs 

then it is almost all right.
Only
 ∷   (\::)   is shown considerably larger than, for example, capital O,
 and ∣  ( \| )  is separated with half-blank, so that  ∣x  
 is drawn close to  ∣ x

(while  Debian + (emacs-23 -nw)   draws everything all right).

Ubuntu 18.04 + emacs 25.2  shows the following description:

******************************************************************
\::

 character: ∷ (displayed as ∷) (codepoint 8759, #o21067, #x2237)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x2237
               script: symbol
               syntax: w        which means: word
             category: .:Base, c:Chinese
             to input: type "\::" with Agda input method
          buffer code: #xE2 #x88 #xB7
      file code: #xE2 #x88 #xB7 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
              display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-GOOG-Noto Sans Mono CJK
    SC-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x34B)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: PROPORTION
  general-category: Sm (Symbol, Math)
  decomposition: (8759) ('∷')

**********************************************************************
\|

character: ∣ (displayed as ∣) (codepoint 8739, #o21043, #x2223)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x2223
               script: symbol
               syntax: w        which means: word
             category: .:Base, c:Chinese
    to input: type "\|" or "\shortmid" or "\mid" with Agda input method
    buffer code: #xE2 #x88 #xA3
    file code: #xE2 #x88 #xA3 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
              display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-GOOG-Noto Sans Mono CJK
      SC-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x33D)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: DIVIDES
  general-category: Sm (Symbol, Math)
  decomposition: (8739) ('∣')
***********************************************************************


Thanks,

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Sergei