Subject: Re: bug#26396: 25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:07:35 -0400

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  > Wouldn't it be better if Emacs ignored terminal-coding-system when the output 
  > device is a Linux console and Emacs therefore knows exactly which characters the 
  > console can display?

Does Emacs always know for certain?

What if it is talking to that console via ssh?

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