From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091118093716.GA1277@muc.de> (raw)
Hi, Emacs,
Once again, I'm getting silly characters on the screen. In *scratch*,
where's I've written "ñ", what gets displayed is "\361". It may have
happened when I upgraded to Emacs 23.
This keeps happening to me, I don't know why, but most importantly it
seems unusually poorly documented. Goodness knows how an ordinary user
manages this, but I cannot easily track down the proper bit in the
manual to sort this out.
Things like character sets and their display isn't my area. Why won't
it just work?
I go to the coding systems page. There is no @def{coding system}, just
vague references with which you're supposed to get the understanding by
osmosis. What I DON'T get from this osmosis is whether or not "coding
systems" deal with the garbage "\361" on my screen. There is definitely
a missing "For the appearance of the text on your screen @ref{...}".
So, once again, I've got between half an hour and an hour of wasted time
trying to debug, yet again, this problem. Why can I not easily find the
answer in the Emacs manual?
Of secondary importance, why does this problem keep happening in the
first place?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 9:37 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2009-11-18 9:40 ` Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Miles Bader
2009-11-18 10:15 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-18 12:03 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-18 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-18 19:12 [acm@muc.de: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.] Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 1:27 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 8:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 8:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-19 14:08 ` Fwd: " Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:50 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-20 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 3:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 4:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 5:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 6:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 6:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-23 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 12:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 13:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 23:30 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 1:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-22 8:06 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 23:52 ` Sebastian Rose
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