Subject: 24.3.50; (NS) Non-BMP character 🔔 not shown
From: Carsten Bormann <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:22:25 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

(insert-char 128276 1 t)

The inserted character is shown only as a background-color box, although
the system has fonts for that character (Apple Color Emoji, on this machine Symbola too).

(what-cursor-position t) says:

             position: 192 of 192 (99%), column: 0
            character: 🔔 (displayed as 🔔) (codepoint 128276, #o372424, #x1f514)
    preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x1F514
               script: symbol
               syntax: w 	which means: word
             category: .:Base
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
          buffer code: #xF0 #x9F #x94 #x94
            file code: #xF0 #x9F #x94 #x94 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
              display: no font available

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: BELL
  general-category: So (Symbol, Other)
  decomposition: (128276) ('🔔')

There are text properties here:
  fontified            t

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 of 2013-10-10 on bob.porkrind.org
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