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

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:48:41 -0400

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  > > Does Emacs always know for certain?
  > If Emacs is attached directly to a console, yes. There's already some 
  > code that does this, by using Linux-specific syscalls.

  > > What if it is talking to that console via ssh?

If we can provide the data thru terminfo
then the functionality will work even thru ssh.

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