* etc/PROBLEMS: Problems with Alacritty and Emoji. (Bug#56952)

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Eli Zaretskii 2022-08-06 19:19:01 +03:00
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@ -2170,8 +2170,23 @@ terminals display them as 1-column glyphs. Again, this causes cursor
addressing to get out of sync and eventually messes up the display.
One possible workaround for problems caused by character composition
is to turn off 'auto-composition-mode' on Kitty terminals.
is to turn off 'auto-composition-mode' on Kitty terminals, e.g. by
customizing the 'auto-composition-mode' variable to have as value a
string that the 'tty-type' function returns on those terminals.
*** Display artifacts on the Alacritty text terminal
This terminal is known to cause problems with Emoji sequences: when
displaying them, the Emacs text-mode frame could show gaps and other
visual artifacts.
The solution is to disable 'auto-composition-mode' on these
terminals, for example, like this:
(setq auto-composition-mode "alacritty")
This disables 'auto-composition-mode' on frames that display on
terminals of this type.
* Runtime problems specific to individual Unix variants