GNU bug report logs - #26396
25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty

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Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au>

Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 02:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, user42_kevin <at> yahoo.com.au
Cc: 26396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26396: 25.1; char-displayable-p on a latin1 tty
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:45:52 +0300

> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:05:01 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 26396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Paul, could you please look into this?  I think the code in
> char-displayable-p which looks at the result of internal-char-font
> should only accept a non-negative value if the terminal-coding-system
> supports the character.  IOW, the Linux console should not be
> considered as being able to display a character unless the terminal
> encoding can safely encode it.

Or maybe the result of internal-char-font should be accepted only if
the terminal encoding is UTF-8 or some other Unicode encoding.
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