From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 28242@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28242: Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols.
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 22:40:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83efry5d9n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170826192431.GE5508@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:24:31 +0000)
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:24:31 +0000
> Cc: 28242@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > No, I think the problem is in the function using_utf8, called from
> > 'main'. Does it return true in your case?
>
> I haven't worked out how to hook up gdb to a batch mode Emacs yet
$ gdb ./emacs
...
(gdb) break using_utf8
(gdb) r -batch ... <rest of arguments here>
> > If so, what does terminal-coding-system return in your case in the
> > -batch invocation, and what is the value of locale-coding-system in
> > that case?
>
> In an interactive session, terminal-coding-system is utf-8-unix and
> locale-coding-system is also utf-8-unix.
>
> But I would be disturbed if my batch mode session didn't report
> utf-8-unix, or something similar. It's running on an up to date
> GNU/Linux system.
If you locale's codeset is UTF-8, then how come your terminal cannot
display those quote characters?
> Surely Emacs doesn't assume from the use of UTF8 that curly quotes are
> displayable? Those quotes are merely two characters from several
> hundred thousand, and not all of these are going to be displayable. On
> a Linux tty, as I use, there is a maximum of 256 displayable glyphs.
> Most UTF8 characters aren't displayable.
We are not interested in all of the Unicode characters, we are only
interested in a few of them.
Anyway, I think it works for everyone else, the question is why
doesn't it work for you?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-26 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-26 13:06 bug#28242: Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-26 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-26 17:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-26 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-26 19:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-26 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-26 20:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 8:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-27 9:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-27 16:46 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-27 17:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-20 15:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-08-27 16:40 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-27 16:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 16:47 ` Glenn Morris
2017-08-27 17:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-27 17:31 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-27 18:43 ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-27 19:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-08-27 21:38 ` Paul Eggert
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