GNU bug report logs - #50983
28.0.50; [REGRESSION, BUG] Display bugs with uncommon characters

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Message #65 received at 50983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rudiwillalwaysloveyou <at> gmail.com, alan <at> idiocy.org
Subject: Re: bug#50983: 28.0.50; [REGRESSION, BUG] Display bugs with
 uncommon characters
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:37:45 +0200

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

> I don't see how Emacs display can possibly work correctly on such a
> terminal, so I think we should close this bug report as "notabug".
>
> For the second example, I think there could be an issue with character
> compositions on this terminal, so the OP is advised to try turning off
> auto-composition-mode.  If that solves the problem, fine; if not, I
> guess Kitty once again assumes something about how such sequences are
> rendered, and those assumptions don't fit how Emacs displays them in
> reality, and if so, that problem, too, has no satisfactory solution
> (and isn't an Emacs bug).

So I guess the conclusion here is that there's nothing to be done on the
Emacs side here, and I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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