From: patrol <patrol_boat@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character encoding confusion
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:30:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09f7f510-2d5e-4d2d-afcd-576df7277016@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eifewhr6.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au
On Jul 8, 3:32 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
> There has been a lot of chnage in emacs encoding and there are a number
> of possibilities.
>
> 1. What version of emacs?
The latest stable release, 23.2
> 2. Can you clarify what you mean by you created a program in C that
> requires the degree symbol. Do you mean it needs that character in the
> source code, as standard input or as a value in an input file? Are you
> running the program inside emacs or are you generating datafiles for the
> program to consume etc.
It's just a temperature table that I'm printing, so I need to print
"degree symbol"F. My code for that was printf("%cF", 176), which gave
me "shaded box"F.
> 3. Depending on how this is all interacting, your OS locale settings,
> whether your running in GUI mode under X or within an xterm or the
> console can all be relevant.
Yes, I think I understand the problem better now (see response to
John) and I agree that the OS locale settings are relevant. Thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 16:27 character encoding confusion patrol
2010-07-07 22:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 0:19 ` patrol
2010-07-08 1:15 ` Barry Margolin
2010-07-08 15:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 1:38 ` John Bokma
2010-07-08 13:24 ` patrol
2010-07-08 7:32 ` Tim X
2010-07-08 13:30 ` patrol [this message]
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