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: Robert Elz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: bin/60497: gdb prints garbled gibberish in an attempt to show cutesy emoji
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:28:27 +0700

     Date:        Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:50:02 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        "Thomas Klausner via gnats" <[email protected]>
     Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
 
   |  It's a red X.
 
 The "red" part of that must be established elsewhere, if I
 just print the characters indicated, I see the X (though it isn't
 really that) but in green (my foreground terminal colour),
 followed by some kind of space (it just appears as a space
 on my terminal, but a 3 byte UTF-8 encoding to generate space
 would be a bit extravagant, if that is all it ever is -- that is
 probably intended as the actual emoji, and I just have no font
 for it, the "X" is too low a code point value to have been intended
 to be an emoji I'd guess).
 
 I would take Taylor's PR as requesting that we make the default
 be "emoji off", and I'd support that - I'd also much prefer "colour off"
 (or however that is accomplished, which I believe it can be) as both gdb's
 strange-blue and red, on my deep brown background are close to unreadable.
 They'd probably work OK (but still be garish) on a light background (black
 on white or something boring like that).
 
 kre