GNU bug report logs - #38202
26.2; emacs GUI can not display unicode 01F176

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Message #11 received at 38202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Sun Lin <sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com>, 38202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38202: 26.2; emacs GUI can not display unicode 01F176
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:32:48 +0100

Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> writes:

> On 2019-11-14 14:50, Sun Lin via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss
> army knife of text editors" wrote:
>> The U+1F176 (" v") should be NEGATIVE SQUARED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER
>> G.
>> But it's displayed as an square with hexel value in emacs GUI (in both
>> X11 and Win32).
>
> It displays fine for me in Emacs.  Check the fonts you're using.

Yes, it probably means that a font that can display the character isn't
installed.  It works fine for me, too, and my Emacs is using:

    ftcrhb:-Free-Symbola-normal-normal-semicondensed-*-29-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x1EB5)

So this doesn't seem to be a bug, and I'm closing this bug report.

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