Re: Some unicode symbols can't be displayed

[Julien Cubizolles]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> Some unicode symbol aren't properly displayed in gtk emacs -Q. I only get
> a square block with the unicode number in it.

Note that some symbols are displayed properly, 
❤ for instance:

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             position: 519 of 667 (78%), restriction: <100-668>, column: 0
            character: ❤ (displayed as ❤) (codepoint 10084, #o23544, #x2764)
    preferred charset: unicode-bmp (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane 
(U+0000..U+FFFF))
code point in charset: 0x2764
               script: symbol
               syntax: w        which means: word
             category: .:Base
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 2764" or "C-x 8 RET HEAVY BLACK HEART"
          buffer code: #xE2 #x9D #xA4
            file code: #xE2 #x9D #xA4 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs)
              display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 
(#xB43)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: HEAVY BLACK HEART
  general-category: So (Symbol, Other)
  decomposition: (10084) ('❤')

There are text properties here:
  fontified            t
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