From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: improper display of multibyte characters Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:23:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83ws22a89v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6b310a3b-3b10-4632-b906-f3ea8539f250@p36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257593257 31862 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2009 11:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:27:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 12:27:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6jS3-0001Ew-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:27:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43964 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6jS3-0007hx-7q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6jRC-0007Zw-S7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6jR7-0007YH-Rb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33813 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6jR7-0007Y3-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:60991) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6jR6-00051Q-Ps for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSQ00200KUTI700@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:25:10 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSQ00KYML1YQXA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:25:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <6b310a3b-3b10-4632-b906-f3ea8539f250@p36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69577 Archived-At: > I'm doing some dev work on my laptop running Kubuntu. My compilati= on > window is not displaying multibyte characters correctly. > Specifically, the output I should be seeing is e.g. ')', but I see > instead =E2\200\230)=E2\200\231. (My example single quotes should = be left > and right quotes..) >=20 > All of my other debian boxes work just fine, but Kubuntu on my lapt= op > makes me want to scream right now. My display table is nil on all > machines. What is going on here? What version of Emacs is that? In any case, I suggest to compare the values of these environment variables on the systems that work and the one which doesn't: LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE, and LANG; and the values of the variable locale-coding-system inside Emacs. That should give you a hint about what's going on.