bug#18353: 24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:25:15 -0600
> 
> Invoke "emacs -Q -nw".  I used the XFCE terminal.
> 
> Now evaluate
> 
> (setq-default mode-line-format (propertize (string 32 32 #x26c3) 'face 
> 'error))
> 
> This sets the mode line to two spaces followed by an unusual character.
> 
> For me the spaces are correctly displayed as red.
> However the following character is only partly red, and partly white.

I cannot reproduce this with yesterday's build of the trunk.  I tried
on GNU/Linux using PuTTY as the terminal emulator (which emulates
xterm), and on MS-Windows, and in both cases the u+26c3 character had
a correct face (color).

Perhaps this is another manifestation of bug #17497?  Do you also have
problems with TTY menus, as described in screenshots there?

Does the problem happen for you in a different terminal emulator, say,
xterm?