Subject: Re: bug#50865: 28.0.50; Emoji with emoji modifier in Linux console garbles emacs display

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 14:56:24 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 13:21:21 +0200
> 
> On Okt 02 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If indeed the Linux console doesn't support double-width characters,
> > or at least enough of them to cause trouble with Emacs display, my
> > suggestion would be to use this setting:
> >
> >   M-x set-terminal-coding-system RET latin-1 RET
> 
> How can that work?  The terminal's encoding is utf-8, not latin-1.

Then perhaps us-ascii is the best we can do in that case.