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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:03:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160304110325.GA31942@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJPkUJkyoT-bwYChrxa5tGUfqmbPEAP4BepZfke6wJQ14cO8oA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:03:13AM +0000, Mike Vertolli wrote:
> I'm stumped at this point. Initially the values were displayed with escapes
> (e.g., /u2018). I swapped the localization to en_US.UTF-8 and now they are
> being displayed as small, square, filled-in boxes.

This might be a good sign, really :-)

>                                                   Re-coding in the editor
> has no effect (already reading the file as UTF8).
> 
> I'm running a Gentoo distro. I'd rather not have to find and replace.

My hunch is that Emacs displays the correct (Unicode) characters, but that
you don't have a suitable font (set).

As a first approach, put point on one of those little boxes and enter

  M-x describe-char

What happens?

You might want to install a more complete font. Unless you *want* to have
(non-ascii) Unicode characters displayed as \u2018, that is. In that case...
there should be an option for that, but I'd have to look it up, sorry.

regards
- -- t
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-04  7:03 Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i Mike Vertolli
2016-03-04 11:03 ` tomas [this message]
2016-03-04 12:39   ` Alexis
2016-03-04 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-04 20:04   ` Robert Thorpe

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