Re: bin/60497: gdb prints garbled gibberish in an attempt to show cutesy emoji

The following reply was made to PR bin/60497; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/60497: gdb prints garbled gibberish in an attempt to show
 cutesy emoji
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:48:37 +0200

 On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 05:30:01PM +0100, [email protected] via gnats wrote:
 > (gdb) break write
 > &#10060;&#65039; Function "write" not defined.
 > Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y
 > 
 > 	My terminal emulator does not display emoji, nor does any
 > 	terminal emulator or font that NetBSD ships out of the box as
 > 	far as I know, so it comes out instead as a couple of empty
 > 	squares of different sizes.
 > 
 > 	I think we should turn this cutesy/annoying `feature' off by
 > 	default.
 
 It's a red X. I can see it in all the terminals I use.
 
 It's configurable, from gdb/NEWS:
 
 set style emoji on|off|auto
 show style emoji
   Controls whether GDB can display emoji.  The default is "auto",
   which means emoji will be displayed in some situations when
   the host charset is UTF-8.
 
 So if you don't like it, you can 'set style emoji off'
  Thomas