From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?4oCcUmF34oCd?= string literals for elisp Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 16:15:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1cuwd89.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o880zuxs.fsf@gnu.org> <838rz4ypkt.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0inxvjf.fsf@gnu.org> <83ily7xsjw.fsf@gnu.org> <83ee8uyb3w.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhqwh87.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4279"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, db48x@db48x.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 15:18:13 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZCEu-0000xX-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 15:18:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZCEt-0002Fx-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:18:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZCD2-0000qx-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZCD0-00080n-LB; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3118 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZCCu-0005Kn-Gb; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:16:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sat, 9 Oct 2021 13:08:35 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276612 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 13:08:35 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, > stefankangas@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > --- (EM DASH) appears as an inverse question mark on my screen. So do > > > several other punctuation marks, I think. > > > That means the display-time replacement doesn't happen, I think. What > > is your terminal-coding-system? > > M-: default-terminal-coding-system says utf-8-unix. I haven't set this > in my site-start.el or .emacs. That explains it, I think: info.el thinks your console can display those characters. > I have my font set to Latin-1. More precisely, > > consolefont="lat1-16" > > in my /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Are there any other possible values that will cause these characters display correctly? Or is the Linux console unable to display them no matter what? Regardless, we could have a customizable option in info.el to force display of the Unicode punctuation as their ASCII equivalents, even if the terminal seems capable of the Unicode display.