Re: Entering Unicode characters

[Richard Stallman]

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  > When Emacs displays on a TTY frame, the font is out of its control.
  > The font is determined by the terminal emulator or the console config
  > files,

That's right.

           and Emacs wouldn't know where to find the font even when told
  > its name.

Why not?  Emacs could know the usual place where these font files are
stored, and some Lisp code could find a particular font file
just like the command that tells the terminal which font to use.

  > In particular, if you login from another machine, the font used by the
  > terminal emulator is not accessible at all for Emacs that runs on the
  > remote.

In theory, it might not be present on the machine Emacs is running on.
But in practice, it probably is present, if they are both GNU/Linux.

And if the font is NOT present there, you could copy it there and tell
Emacs the file name to find it in.

So I think what I proposed is doable, practically speaking.

It would take work, of course, but there is nothing difficult about it
in principle.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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