From: "Ron Peterson (012ED25E)" <peterson.ron@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: improper display of multibyte characters
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:16:30 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cbd659b-1873-4949-ad23-90583c90c1b3@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10214.1257593196.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Nov 7, 6:23 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > I'm doing some dev work on my laptop running Kubuntu. My compilation
> > window is not displaying multibyte characters correctly.
> > Specifically, the output I should be seeing is e.g. ')', but I see
> > instead â\200\230)â\200\231. (My example single quotes should be left
> > and right quotes..)
>
> > All of my other debian boxes work just fine, but Kubuntu on my laptop
> > makes me want to scream right now. My display table is nil on all
> > machines. What is going on here?
>
> What version of Emacs is that?
>
> In any case, I suggest to compare the values of these environment
> variables on the systems that work and the one which doesn't: LC_ALL,
> LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE, and LANG; and the values of the variable
> locale-coding-system inside Emacs. That should give you a hint about
> what's going on.
Thanks! That's it. I had LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8 on the system that
wasn't working, whereas it was set to C everywhere else. Now the
question is: how much do I care about why using unicode interferes
with the display of multibyte characters? If anyone knows, I guess
I'd like to know, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-07 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-07 1:56 improper display of multibyte characters Ron Peterson (012ED25E)
2009-11-07 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-11-07 13:16 ` Ron Peterson (012ED25E) [this message]
2009-11-07 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.10228.1257614562.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-07 18:06 ` Ron Peterson (012ED25E)
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