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diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi index e3b24033a1a..c8987c279c5 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/display.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi @@ -1476,15 +1476,18 @@ elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}. @cindex glyphless characters @cindex characters with no font glyphs +@cindex glyphless-char face On graphical displays, some characters may have no glyphs in any of the fonts available to Emacs. These @dfn{glyphless characters} are normally displayed as boxes containing the hexadecimal character code. Similarly, on text terminals, characters that cannot be displayed using the terminal encoding (@pxref{Terminal Coding}) are normally displayed as question signs. You can control the display method by -customizing the variable @code{glyphless-char-display-control}. -@xref{Glyphless Chars,, Glyphless Character Display, elisp, The Emacs -Lisp Reference Manual}, for details. +customizing the variable @code{glyphless-char-display-control}. You +can also customize the @code{glyphless-char} face to make these +characters more prominent on display. @xref{Glyphless Chars,, +Glyphless Character Display, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}, +for details. @cindex curly quotes @cindex curved quotes |