Re: Compilation mode output is badly displayed

["Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

On Jan 29, 2008 9:47 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 29.01.2008 um 12:51 schrieb Francis Moreau:
>
> > Can anyone help me to sort this out ?
>
>
> These typographic quotes come from GCC: can you try to put it into an
> 8- or 7-bit environment, like in:
>
>         env LC_CTYPE=FR_fr.ISO8859-15 make -k ...

It works fine

>         env LANG=FR_fr.ISO8859-15 make -k ...

It works fine

>         env LANG=FR_fr.ISO8859-15 LC_CTYPE=FR_fr.ISO8859-15 make -k ...

It works fine

>
> There must be a reason why GCC emits these typographic quotes. I am
> sure outside an UTF-8 based environment GCC won't emit those Unicode
> characters ...
>

From a shell:

$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

$ echo  $LC_CTYPE


So it seems the reason why GCC emits UTF-8 encoding.

That said why doesn't Emacs notice the UTF-8 environment too ? It could
switch automatically to UTF-8 in this case ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis