From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 20:04:40 +0000 Message-ID: <87povac8mf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <8337s6z4fk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457121917 14878 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2016 20:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 20:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Mike Vertolli Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 04 21:05:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1abvyB-00028o-CV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 21:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abvyA-00065F-Dc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52739) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abvy0-000659-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:04:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abvxw-0005hL-Aj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp12.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.17]:38566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abvxw-0005gt-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2016 15:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail02.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.11]) by outbound-smtp12.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAAC61C2A2A for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 20:04:41 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 8424 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2016 20:04:41 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.1.172]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 4 Mar 2016 20:04:41 -0000 In-Reply-To: <8337s6z4fk.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 04 Mar 2016 16:46:39 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.17 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109454 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Mike Vertolli >> 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