From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some unicode symbols can't be displayed
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:52:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bms9o7od.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgrdva9o.fsf@free.fr> (message from Julien Cubizolles on Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:14:11 +0200)
> From: Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:14:11 +0200
>
> Some unicode symbol aren't properly displayed in gtk emacs -Q. I only get
> a square block with the unicode number in it.
This means you don't have a font installed that Emacs can use to
display this character.
> What's even more confusing: it's correctly displayed as a thumbs up sign
> in emacs -nw, and on another machine where I have basically the same
> emacs setup.
"emacs -nw" uses the font of the terminal emulator.
Bottom line: install a suitable font. On my system, this character is
displayed in Emacs using the Symbola font.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-06 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-06 15:14 Some unicode symbols can't be displayed Julien Cubizolles
2017-04-06 15:51 ` Julien Cubizolles
2017-04-06 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-06 20:41 ` Julien Cubizolles
2017-04-07 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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