From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Ingalls Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recommended russian encoding Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 04:57:58 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <40F570B2.5010500@yahoo.com> <65wJc.6722$oD5.4219@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <40F6A69D.5040500@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089954171 22743 80.91.224.253 (16 Jul 2004 05:02:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 16 07:02:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BlKrm-0002bZ-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:02:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BlKuI-0007ro-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:05:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!1c9f55fe!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <40F6A69D.5040500@yahoo.com> Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.153.184.175 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1089953878 141.153.184.175 (Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:57:58 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:57:58 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124325 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19660 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19660 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Bruce Ingalls wrote: > > 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. > 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. I'd also like to know what elisp to eval, to invoke utf-8 encoding > 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...