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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B03E27A.20000@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091118101502.GB1277@muc.de>

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've tried M-x set-language-environment <CR> latin-1.  The mode line of
> my *scratch* looks like this:
>   
If you DON'T do that, after starting emacs -Q, what does C-h L <CR> report?

It should be initialised to the same as your terminal language 
environment, which is what you need when running in a tty.

>> Do you use X emacs, emacs in a tty, etc.?  If tty emacs, which type of
>> terminal do you use?
>>     
>
> A Linux tty.
>   

More specific please. Console? Serial? xterm? GNU screen?





  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-18 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-18  9:37 Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-18  9:40 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-18 10:15   ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-18 12:03     ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-11-18 15:02     ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-18 19:12 [acm@muc.de: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.] Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19  1:27 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19  8:20   ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19  8:50     ` Miles Bader
2009-11-19 14:08     ` Fwd: " Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:50       ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 23:12           ` Miles Bader
2009-11-20  2:16             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20  3:37             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20  4:30               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20  7:18                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 14:16                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21  4:13                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21  5:24                       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21  6:42                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21  6:49                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21  7:27                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-23  1:58                               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 12:33                           ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 13:55                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 14:36                               ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 17:53                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 23:30                                   ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22  1:27                                     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-22  8:06                                       ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 23:52                                         ` Sebastian Rose

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