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From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Mike Vertolli <michaelvertolli@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:04:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87povac8mf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337s6z4fk.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:46:39 +0200)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Mike Vertolli <michaelvertolli@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 07:03:13 +0000
>> 
>> 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. Re-coding in the editor
>> has no effect (already reading the file as UTF8).
>
> It is not enough to set the locale to UTF-8, you need also to make
> sure that your console or terminal emulator support a large enough
> range of Unicode codepoints.  The way you did it, Emacs sees your
> locale and assumes your terminal can display these characters, so it
> sends their UTF-8 codes to the terminal.  But the terminal doesn't
> know how to display them.

To expand on Eli's reply....  Try running Emacs in X instead of in the
terminal emulator.  If the UTF characters are displayed correctly then
the problem is your terminal emulator.

BR,
Robert Thorpe



      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-04 20:04 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
2016-03-04 12:39   ` Alexis
2016-03-04 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-04 20:04   ` Robert Thorpe [this message]

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