Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Does char-displayable-p detect that this glyph cannot be displayed in
>> your environment?
>
> It might/should when he uses LANG=C but not when he uses a utf-8 environment.
>
>> If so, perhaps we could have the cake and eat it, too.
>
> I don't think we can (even less so if you consider emacsclient use).
>
> But most of the people I showed it to liked the feature, which is why
> I'd like to keep it ON by default, even though it's obviously not
> a terribly important feature.

Given that the feature breaks on the Linux console, which is a small,
but still a significant target (it probably has more users that a lot of
other systems that emacs still supports) it does not seem like it's a
good idea to have it on.