From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: utf8 char display in buffer
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:30:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A339BED.4020105@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MFKab-0000GU-Dg@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 06/13/2009 12:11 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> ....
>
> Please provide the output of "C-u C-x =" on these characters, both
> when they are displayed correctly and when they are displayed as empty
> boxes.
In a similar post on the same thread Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Please post here the full output of "C-u C-x =" (from a buffer popped
> up by Emacs) for these characters, both when you type them using the
> appropriate input method and they are displayed correctly (as in 1)
> above), and when you see them as empty boxes after revisiting the
> file. The differences between these two cases should give you a hint
> what is wrong; if not, someone else here might have ideas.
Eli, thanks for your response. Here it is:
^[$-1 ¡ is 'a' with a horizontal bar over it. On first inputting it
(after doing "set-input-method latin-4-postfix" and before changing the
input method to anything else), it appears correctly and "C-u C-x =" yields:
=============================================
character: ^[$-1 ¡ (05140, 2656, 0xa60)
charset: latin-iso8859-4
(Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 4 (ISO/IEC 8859-4): ISO-IR-110)
code point: 96
syntax: word
category: l:Latin
buffer code: 0x84 0xE0
file code: 0xC4 0x81 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-unix)
font: -ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO8859-4
=============================================
When I reload the file (revisit the file), the same character is
replaced with a little box. Doing "C-u C-x =" here yields:
=============================================
character: ^[$-1 ¡ (01210041, 331809, 0x51021)
charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff
(Unicode characters of the range U+0100..U+24FF.)
code point: 32 33
syntax: word
category: l:Latin
buffer code: 0x9C 0xF4 0xA0 0xA1
file code: 0xC4 0x81 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-unix)
font: -- none --
=============================================
Note: For some reason, possibly related, had difficulty copying the
above text from emacs into clipboard (i.e., "M-w" didn't do anything),
so had to use a workaround. It seems that this workaround altered the
character in question, the one above following each of the two instances
of "character:".
As for the meaning of the two outputs above, all that I can confidently
glean is that, if I want to use non-English characters in emacs, I have
to be an expert emacs developer. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-13 12:30 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.227.1244485995.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-08 19:10 ` utf8 char display in buffer Teemu Likonen
2009-06-08 19:52 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-09 10:52 ` ken
2009-06-08 20:43 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-08 20:49 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-08 22:49 ` ken
2009-06-09 10:24 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.289.1244543082.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-09 13:03 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-09 14:51 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.297.1244559110.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-10 1:34 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-10 14:03 ` Lewis Perin
2009-06-11 3:21 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-12 14:54 ` ken
2009-06-13 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.522.1244818530.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-12 15:39 ` Lewis Perin
2009-06-12 16:48 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-12 17:45 ` Lewis Perin
2009-06-12 17:53 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-12 20:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-12 22:23 ` ken
[not found] ` <e01d8a50906121527k5e77f5abj8c2c44f62f85e537@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4A32E6F6.5080501@mousecar.com>
[not found] ` <E1MFKab-0000GU-Dg@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-06-13 12:30 ` ken [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.536.1244845400.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-13 0:35 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-12 17:27 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-12 19:30 ` Lewis Perin
2009-06-12 19:43 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-12 20:56 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-13 16:16 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-13 20:35 ` Lewis Perin
2009-06-14 11:47 ` ken
2009-06-15 7:28 ` Bernardo
2009-06-11 12:03 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-08 18:33 ken
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