Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:32 -0400
> Cc: James Cloos <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >>>> I does not work on the Linux console of a Fedora 18 machine using
> >>>> en_us.UTF-8.
> >>> Do you also see question marks, or do you see something else?
> >> It looks like a small white square. 
> >
> > Thanks.  This one is a problem of font, which might be solvable by
> > fiddling with your console's font, but Emacs has no way to tell whether
> 
> This is the default font for the console.  Normal users cannot change
> the console font.
> 
> This means that a Linux console is unusable to edit perl code by
> default.
> 
> What problem does showing a glyph instead of -> solve?  This looks like
> a personal preference, and one that causes problems.

Does char-displayable-p detect that this glyph cannot be displayed in
your environment?  If so, perhaps we could have the cake and eat it,
too.