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@@ -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