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

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   You've characterised this old behaviour as a bug, but in the
  > preferences of two actual Linux console users (Richard and myself), the
  > solution is not better than the bug.

With user interface questions, what users want is the key to what
behavior is good or bad.

Eli said it would be difficult to reliably display undisplayable
characters as diamond _on all consoles_.  But I contend that it is not
hard to implement an option to do this _on Linux consoles_.
Eli, is there something difficult about that?

This option doesn't need to go through terminfo, if that would make
it difficult.


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