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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, 18353@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18353: 24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:58:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878um7ffte.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d2bji95w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:54:03 +0300")

Eli> Pressing F10 should drop down the File menu.  Then you can navigate
Eli> them with arrow keys or C-f/C-b/C-n/C-p.  To select, press RET, to
Eli> exit without selecting, press C-g.

Thanks.  Terminal menus seem to work fine.

Eli> Does the problem happen for you in a different terminal emulator, say,
Eli> xterm?

Tom> It is worse in xterm.  There, the "unusual" character is not
Tom> displayed at all.

Eli> Not even as a literal "\u26C3" string?  That would be strange,
Eli> indeed.  What do you get in the *scratch* buffer if you type
Eli> "C-x 8 RET 26C3 RET"?  Also, what is your terminal-coding-system?

When I type that I just see a space, in xterm.  Maybe there's a font
problem.  I see the right thing when I use the XFCE terminal.

terminal-coding-system returns utf-8-unix.

Tom





  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-29 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-29  3:25 bug#18353: 24.4.50; unicode chars in mode-line on tty Tom Tromey
2014-08-29  6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-29 15:22   ` Tom Tromey
2014-08-29 15:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-29 15:58       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2014-08-29 18:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 22:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-11-29 19:27   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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