From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28242: Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols. Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:45 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <20170826130608.GB5508@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503821906 25428 195.159.176.226 (27 Aug 2017 08:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:18:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: 28242@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 27 10:18:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlslk-0005YX-FW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:18:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlslp-0003TG-0x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:18:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlsli-0003T9-Mh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlsle-00060u-Mu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlsle-00060o-Jf for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlsle-0005ID-Br for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20170826130608.GB5508@ACM> Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 28242 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 28242-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B28242.150382182220264 (code B ref 28242); Sun, 27 Aug 2017 08:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 28242) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Aug 2017 08:17:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57009 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlskf-0005Gh-VO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:48970) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlske-0005GN-8A for 28242@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D82016093B; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id zUJZmXtDwbdS; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFA916093C; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id yq1XFTxZbSn1; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F848160865; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 01:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:136248 Archived-At: What happens if you run the following shell commands? echo invalid program >t.c gcc t.c On my machine GCC outputs diagnostics with curved quotes, like this: t.c:1:1: error: unknown type name =E2=80=98invalid=E2=80=99 ... What do you see on your console? If you see solid squares or other glitch= es=20 rather than curved quotes, then the problem is not specific to Emacs. > On my new PC (Gentoo GNU/Linux), byte compiling in batch mode (e.g. wit= h > make bootstrap in the master branch) is displaying warning messages wit= h > symbols "quoted" by the invalid character glyph (a solid square) rather > than ` and '. ... > My one theory is that the designer of the font > decided to use a long diagonal line rather than a reversed comma shape > for grave (`), These two passages seem inconsistent. One says you=E2=80=99re seeing a so= lid square; the=20 other a long diagonal line. For what it=E2=80=99s worth, I don=E2=80=99t observe the problem on my Ub= untu 16.04.3 LTS=20 console. I see curved quotes. I don=E2=80=99t remember doing anything to = configure my=20 console. Here is my /etc/default/console-setup file: it may help you to s= et up=20 your computer. On Ubuntu, the command =E2=80=98sudo dpkg-reconfigure cons= ole-setup=E2=80=99=20 configures this file. # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. ACTIVE_CONSOLES=3D"/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP=3D"UTF-8" CODESET=3D"guess" FONTFACE=3D"Fixed" FONTSIZE=3D"8x16" VIDEOMODE=3D # The following is an example how to use a braille font # FONT=3D'lat9w-08.psf.gz brl-8x8.psf'