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


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 03:42:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>> That's unlikely (the only known problem is for users who
>>> use a mouse, which you said you don't), but even if that
>>> were the case, that's how progress goes: leaving a stable
>>> position with known problems to reach a position in which
>>> some of these problems are solved, while taking the risk
>>> of facing other yet unknown problems.
>> 
>> The worst act a software developer can commit is to break
>> things for a user who is already comfortable.
>
> If a user is comfortable with a side effect of a bug,
> breaking that is inevitable, as long as we want to fix
> a bug.

Still, one shouldn't burn down the house to kill the rats ...

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