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

[Emanuel Berg]

Yuri Khan wrote:

>>> I do not know the history of replacing an undisplayable
>>> character with a diamond. The U+FFFD Replacement Character
>>> glyph looks similar, but the cause/consequence link might
>>> be in either direction.
>>
>> Can't we check this with the Emacs source if that's where
>> the change happened?
>
> No, because the replacement with diamond happens in the
> Linux console no matter if Emacs or something else
> is running.
>
>     bash$ echo $'\U0001F4A9'
>     ♦

???

(insert-char #x1f3a8) 🎨
                      ^^^^^^^^
                      not a diamond anymore!
                      (i.e., the fffd: �)
                      but instead 8 chars, \U01F3A8

Wait, I'll post a screenshot ...

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal