Subject: bug#77917: 31.0.50; [PATCH] Stop using the "stop" sign for all warning levels

From: Yuan Fu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 19:29:02 -0700

> On May 8, 2025, at 12:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],
>>  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 20:29:35 +0300
>> 
>>>> Also, are you sure that show U+26A0 ⚠ is a good idea for the 'symbol'
>>>> preference?  At least on TTY frames, that character has problems
>>>> because its glyph is wide, and many terminal emulators have trouble
>>>> showing it in an Emacs window.
>>> 
>>> I tried ⚠ on a tty, and it looks very poor, barely recognizable.
>>> So need to find a new symbol.
>> 
>> ▲ looks more solid on a tty.
> 
> But will it be perceived as a warning sign?  It looks just a triangle.

My two cents, and feel free to ignore: maybe just use the exclamation mark. We don’t have to use a “unicode” symbol for the symbol category. “!” conveys the idea and is well supported.

Yuan