From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wu Kejia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: text display problem - maybe encoding? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:18:33 -0700 Message-ID: <1219432713.5966.5.camel@localhost> References: <48b1f730-7551-41fa-aa45-6d9f80c85cf5@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219432867 24475 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2008 19:21:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:21:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: otter Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 21:22:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWcCn-0007vF-L8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48591 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWcBp-0004fb-SX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:20:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWcA0-000345-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWc9y-00030i-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:19:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46445 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWc9y-00030O-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.152]:22487) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWc9y-0006m0-Cl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 34so302975yxf.66 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:18:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=55ba97XRo++tvSxjoVwNZNxEPegS+q8PGLogR2ogjk0=; b=wPYRmXYEyfS9EIGpQrLaIohOEDfBVEvfPaa6f+DL+WvkNwYYrLVC7Grzzjeg7kRGIT +xaFRX0svfDCVrmTLvRDpNAKR4OELWL3dqKQmg7iZmxbh98T+RV5DtEiPDZuBcEccn+P 9bDr4mDcGKNehbSsqXbjWG00KqGfSnZska3sg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=XR7d4gzhF23aLU2q64BQ2HsW0Aeqc8Fh82SWGpfZYdNm9eQWHyz8N7nVK/hn7SqUjo 39oIdOSqbxs91J5FHb98AqjrDSPkzeY1BhImcfU8cTU6pWADhTpvhZo6hE/WgRKGo/o6 8/r0tjScmt1NnkerNnv1E7t2/Ie6INGDjp//w= Original-Received: by 10.114.135.1 with SMTP id i1mr1485902wad.5.1219432735998; Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from tl-stu-1-224-139.unbc.ca ( [142.207.224.139]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m26sm3183000pof.1.2008.08.22.12.18.54 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:18:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48b1f730-7551-41fa-aa45-6d9f80c85cf5@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56896 Archived-At: Hi otter, That may be thing related to fonts. You may edit your .emacs file as appending a line like this: (set-default-font "-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15- 140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1") That is my font, and you may use the follows to find out your available fonts for emacs: M-x set-default-font [TAB] [TAB] means the tab key. Good luck. On Wed, 2008-20-08 at 16:55 -0700, otter wrote: > When I start Emacs.app (the one included in the regular 22.2.1 > distribution) I see that most of the characters on the regular > "welcome" buffer are squares. Could this have something to do with > encoding? This used to work just fine; I've been ignoring it for a few > weeks but I just can't stand it anymore. > > Thanks.