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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Is the "RGB" variable set in the environment?
>
> Sorry, I meant "COLORTERM".

That was the culprit.  I was a bug in my ~/.bashrc, not in Emacs.  I 
forgot that I originally had COLORTERM set there when TERM != linux, and 
that I changed the condition a week ago or so to TERM != fbterm.  Sorry 
for the noise.

So the conclusion is that TERM=linux implies 8 colors.