Re: char-displayable-p returns t for undisplayable characters

[Stefan Monnier]

> Not exactly.  The ellipsis character is fine.  When xterm's locale is
> properly  set to utf-8, char-displayable-p says U+221A (the square root)
> is present,  because it's encodable but my fonts actually have no drawing
> for that char.   Not much Emacs can do about this, I guess.

I was talking explicitly about the ellipsis.
The problem with char-displayable-p is known (and I believe it is fixed in
the unicode branch) but does not affect all chars equally because it
depends on how frequently the glyph is missing in unicode fonts.


        Stefan