Re: compilation output has many nonprintable characters, what shall I do?

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

patiobarbecue wrote:
> Dear there,
> 
> I use M-x compile, followed by make -k, and the output always contains many
> nonprintable characters like this:
> 
> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setw’ was not declared in this scope
> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setprecision’ was not declared in this scope
> 
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
> 
> 

Patio,

Try using  "LOCALE=C make -k"
without the quotes as your build command.
GCC tries to use smartquotes if locale supports it.
However Emacs tends to get confused with them.

The above command tells GCC that the shell (emacs)
doesn't support smart quotes.


HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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