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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:39:53 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb524dt2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160304110325.GA31942@tuxteam.de>


tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> My hunch is that Emacs displays the correct (Unicode) 
> characters, but that you don't have a suitable font (set).
>
> As a first approach, put point on one of those little boxes and 
> enter
>
>   M-x describe-char
>
> What happens?
>
> You might want to install a more complete font. Unless you 
> *want* to have (non-ascii) Unicode characters displayed as 
> \u2018, that is. In that case...  there should be an option for 
> that, but I'd have to look it up, sorry.

Something i've found really useful to help maximise the number of 
Unicode glyphs available for display is the `unicode-fonts` 
package:

https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts

which is available from MELPA:

http://melpa.org/#/unicode-fonts


Alexis.



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

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