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28.0.50; Emoji with emoji modifier in Linux console garbles emacs display

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Message #80 received at 50865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Aura Kelloniemi <kaura.dev <at> sange.fi>
Subject: Re: bug#50865: 28.0.50; Emoji with emoji modifier in Linux console
 garbles emacs display
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:08:42 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> I looked at the Linux kernel sources, and found from drivers/tty/vt/vt.c a
>> table of characters which will be automatically padded with space when writing
>> the glyph to the console. It recognizes two-column characters from Unicode
>> 5.0.
>
> And does Emacs work correctly as long as you restrict yourself only to
> those double-width characters? or are there still problems?

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I only lightly skimmed this thread, but there's been some work done in
this area (displaying non-displayble characters on the console) over the
last week, and I wonder whether that's fixed this issue, too?

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