Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond

[Emanuel Berg]

chad wrote:

> The bug was better in that the undefined behavior from
> sending known-bad data to the console hasn't yet caused you
> trouble that you've identified. Everyone (who's looked at
> the code) acknowledges that it was doing the wrong thing.
> The fact that the bug didn't hurt you and you got used to it
> is exactly what I meant by "adapted themselves".

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> What the other user (RMS, in this case) _wanted_ to do was
> to use a console (not window system) emacs to look at
> a range of characters that extends beyond ASCII.
> The specific implementations he was using did that right
> some of the time and wrong some of the time. When it was
> wrong, it failed in a certain way. He adapted himself to
> that failure.

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> The alternative that emacs-devel is trying to establish (via
> experiments, etc/PROBLEMS changes, and perhaps code patches)
> will make the system fail less often -- that is, do what the
> user wants more often. The argument in question is basically
> "Don't make the software do what the user wants more often
> if it changes away from the bugs that are already familiar
> to me", especially when that argument is expressed *in the
> middle of fixing the problem*, as a discouragement from
> fixing the problem for all users, then we've arrived at
> "That's horrifying." ala XKCD 1172.

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