Re: recommended russian encoding

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > However, when I tried opening the file in Emacs on Linux, the UTF-8
>> > encoded Russian characters displayed as garbage.
>> Garbage?  Empty boxes would indicate that there's no available font, but
> Checked again; I am getting empty boxes.

So it seems that Emacs correctly detected the utf-8 encoding but just
can't find the chars in the unicode font.
You can check with C-u C-x = when point is on one of those empty boxes.

>> bogus glyphs indicate a problem with the encoding.  Did you visit the
>> file with `C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f'?
> I think you got the above syntax wrong.

Care to tell us what was wrong?
[ Not that the C-x RET c utf-8 RET is necessary since Emacs seems to have
  figured that part on its own. ]

>> Use `C-h h' to display the HELLO file.  Is the Russian text correctly
>> displayed?  Does it make a difference if you invoke emacs with the
>> --font=fontset-standard option?  How about disabling any Fedora
>> customizations with --no-init-file --no-site-file?

> Disabling the startup file made no difference.
> C-h h does display Russian "hello" properly.
> Emacs also works fine in -nw mode in an xterm.

> This seems to demonstrate that the font is available...

Probably that you have a font for the koi-8 characters but not for the
russian unicode characters (and your Emacs doesn't realize that they are
the same).


        Stefan