Subject: bug#21682: 25.0.50; display bug

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:07:05 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:04:24 +0200
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> 
>> Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > Emacs needs to cope with it, unless we can get it fixed.
>> 
>> Emacs cannot know how characters are drawn on a tty.
>
> Does that mean you understood what causes Richard's problem?  If so,
> can you explain?

The terminal has to support composition.  The Linux console doesn't.

Andreas.

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