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

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

[patiobarbecue]

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!


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

[Colin S. Miller]

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

[Colin S. Miller]

Colin S. Miller wrote:
> Patio,
> 
> Try using  "LOCALE=C make -k"
Opps, that should be LANG or LANGUAGE, not LOCALE.

> 
> 
> HTH,
> Colin S. Miller
> 
> 


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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.12.2008 um 22:16 schrieb patiobarbecue:

> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setw’ was not declared in this scope
> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setprecision’ was not declared in  
> this scope

Make it display in UTF-8 encoding. Then you would see ‘setw’  
instead.

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

[patiobarbecue]

This works like a charm, thanks. For my GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu,
GTK+ Version 2.12.9) on Ubuntu 8.04, Miller's solution "LANG=C" solves the
problem perfectly. Thanks!

Michael 
 

Colin S. Miller-2 wrote:
> 
> Colin S. Miller wrote:
>> Patio,
>> 
>> Try using  "LOCALE=C make -k"
> Opps, that should be LANG or LANGUAGE, not LOCALE.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Colin S. Miller
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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Re: compilation output has many nonprintable characters, what shall I do?

[patiobarbecue]

in the output window where the nonprintable characters are, I issued the
command:
C-x RETURN f UTF-8 RETURN
and emacs shows no match. I am a little bit confused. Am I doing the right
thing to "make it display in UTF-8 encoding"? Thanks for reply.

Michael


Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 18.12.2008 um 22:16 schrieb patiobarbecue:
> 
>> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setw’ was not declared in this scope
>> decomp.cpp:460: error: ‘setprecision’ was not declared in  
>> this scope
> 
> Make it display in UTF-8 encoding. Then you would see ‘setw’  
> instead.
> 
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> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> Competition is the great erode of profits.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:30:49 +0000
> From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
> 
> GCC tries to use smartquotes if locale supports it.
> However Emacs tends to get confused with them.

Assuming this is Emacs 22, Emacs does not get confused by Unicode
characters like that.  More probably, the OP's setup of Emacs is
somehow in contradiction with the shell's locale, because Emacs
generally uses the same environment variables as GCC to decide whether
GCC will use UTF-8 in its output.

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

Emacs certainly does, unless you interfere with its default setup of
locale-related issues.

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:44:26 -0800 (PST)
> From: patiobarbecue <vancouver.michael@gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> 
> in the output window where the nonprintable characters are, I issued the
> command:
> C-x RETURN f UTF-8 RETURN
> and emacs shows no match.

It's "utf-8", in lower-case.