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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 00:29:55 +0700
> Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, 7 Sept 2022 at 21:20, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > You suggest semi-automatically saving the generated code in the init
> > file, instead of the user copying it there manually?
> 
> Does there have to be generated code involved? I was thinking it could
> be static code acting on generated and cached data.

Why does it matter?  In Lisp, code is data, so how does it matter
whether you generate code to call set-char-table-range for a range of
characters, or generate just the range of characters that some code
should then read and call set-char-table-range?

> > (And yes, it has to be the init file, because if users dislike us
> > writing into the init file, they dislike us writing to additional
> > files even more.)
> 
> Do they really? My ~/.emacs.d/var contains many files and I am not
> bothered with them and I know I can afford to lose them.

I said users, not all of the users including Yuri Khan.  Just witness
the frequent discussions regarding whether customizations should be
written to this or that file.