Subject: Re: bug#18353: 24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 15:15:31 -0700

Tom Tromey <[email-masked]> writes:

> Invoke "emacs -Q -nw".  I used the XFCE terminal.
>
> Now evaluate
>
> (setq-default mode-line-format (propertize (string 32 32 #x26c3) 'face 'error))
>
> This sets the mode line to two spaces followed by an unusual character.
>
> For me the spaces are correctly displayed as red.
> However the following character is only partly red, and partly white.

Are you still seeing this on a recent Emacs?  I tried reproducing this
using xfce4-terminal in Debian but was unable to: the third character is
displayed as red.