GNU bug report logs - #18353
24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.4.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 18353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 18353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18353: 24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 15:15:31 -0700

Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com> 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.
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