GNU bug report logs - #15339
24.3.50; Control characters are displayed as square in describe-char

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 13:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>, 15339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15339: 24.3.50; Control characters are displayed as square in describe-char
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:51:05 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> That's not what I see, I see the TTY graphics for Form Feed (FF)
> character, which is also correct.  This is on MS-Windows, where the
> console font has a glyph for FF, which looks like ♀.

On a text terminal, the character is written literally, which messes up
the display (FF has the effect of moving the cursor down).

Andreas.

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