From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lraae Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs displaying backslash incorrectly Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6bf98f86-4d53-45ad-8094-0eff83063333@q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> References: <4cde6a89-8b15-4841-a777-a1dca63dcd9c@11g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> <87mxrtu0tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291947292 13360 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 02:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:14:52 +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 03:14:41 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 1PQsVM-0007as-PZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:14:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQsVL-0002D1-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:14:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.177.39.235 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1284362445 23513 127.0.0.1 (13 Sep 2010 07:20:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000vbk.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:181251 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:09:17 -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:77167 Archived-At: On Sep 12, 7:40=A0am, David Solimano wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:42:51 +1000, Tim X > wrote: > > > > >lraae writes: > > >> 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. > > >weird. > > >This is only a wild stab in the dark, but maybe it is a font issue? If > >you enter a backslash and save it to a file and view it with something > >outside of emacs, does it show up as a backslash or some other key? > > >Maybe try specifying a different font? > > >Tim > > Due some historical considerations with Japanese and Korean text > encoding, it does seem that some fonts place Won or Yen signs where > the backslash would usually be, eg: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2004/12/14/284838.aspxhttp://blog= s.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/12/479561.aspx > > So it's not terribly surprising that a font would exhibit this > behavior. > > David Thank you all for your help and insights! I should of course have mentioned that this seems to be purely a display artifact in emacs, as the backslash works correctly outside of emacs and also if saved to file from emacs. Also I don't have a Korean, but a Norwegian, keyboard :) The problem actually appears to be a font issue: * emacs was set to use a font called Baekmuk Gulim * changing the font to Monospace does not solve the problem * changing the font to Sans (which makes emacs use DejaVu Sans) solves the problem And I'm happy, though not entirely sure what to conclude from this. Lars