From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unescaping character display. Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 20:40:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83zidwg9rl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1at6k5b.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495993261 25469 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2017 17:41:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 17:41:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 28 19:40:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2BS-0006Rc-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 19:40:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2BX-0001ht-Gc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 13:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2B5-0001hj-PS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 13:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2B1-00086w-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 13:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2B1-00086s-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 13:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4325 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dF2B0-0001GE-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 13:40:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d1at6k5b.fsf@BanjaLuka.rclayton.net> (rvclayton@acm.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113226 Archived-At: > From: rvclayton@acm.org > Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 12:06:24 -0400 > > emacs 24.5.1 is displaying some characters as numeric escapes. For example, > the love-minor-mode description in the list-packages command output is "Minor > mode for working on L\303\226VE projects" (minus the double quotes). My init > file contains (from dotemacs.de/dotfiles/BenoitGoudreault-Emond.emacs.html) > > (set-language-environment "Latin-1") > (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1) > (setq unibyte-display-via-language-environment t) > > What can I do to get the such characters to display in their unescaped form? Delete the above 3 lines, restart Emacs, and see if you get a more reasonable display. (Those 3 lines are remnants of issues long gone, especially the 3rd one. You shouldn't need them.)