GNU bug report logs - #28242
Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:09:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 28242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#28242: Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols.
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:40:26 +0300

> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:16:54 +0000
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
> Cc: 28242 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Why are these curly quotes being output without first checking that the
> device they're being output to can display them?

Paul, is it possible to use for this purpose a technique similar to
what you coded in calculate_glyph_code_table?  That is, call that
special ioctl function, then look in the mapping it returns for the
curly quote characters, and if they aren't there, reset
text_quoting_flag?  Would that work?
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