From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lraae Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs displaying backslash incorrectly Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 05:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4cde6a89-8b15-4841-a777-a1dca63dcd9c@11g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947261 13284 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:14:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:14:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 03:14:17 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQsUx-0007Kr-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:14:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsSl-0000uz-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:11:59 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!11g2000yqq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.177.39.235 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1283863579 22731 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2010 12:46:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:46:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 11g2000yqq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=129.177.39.235; posting-account=FB7udAoAAACiW8i016GCD7uC0Wcx76YK User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100723 Fedora/3.5.11-1.fc12 Firefox/3.5.11,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181190 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:16 -0500 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:77164 Archived-At: Hi, I have a weird problem which I can't seem to find anything about on the web: When I type a backslash, emacs displays it as a capital W with a double strikethrough. This is Emacs 23.1.1 on Linux Fedora 12 (2.6.32.19-163.fc12.i686.PAE). I tried "emacs -q" to run without startup file, but the problem remains. This is a school administered computer, so I don't have root access. Hope someone might have an idea how to proceed in solving this.