Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Mike Vertolli <michaelvertolli@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 07:03:13 +0000
>> 
>> I'm stumped at this point. Initially the values were displayed with escapes
>> (e.g., /u2018). I swapped the localization to en_US.UTF-8 and now they are
>> being displayed as small, square, filled-in boxes. Re-coding in the editor
>> has no effect (already reading the file as UTF8).
>
> It is not enough to set the locale to UTF-8, you need also to make
> sure that your console or terminal emulator support a large enough
> range of Unicode codepoints.  The way you did it, Emacs sees your
> locale and assumes your terminal can display these characters, so it
> sends their UTF-8 codes to the terminal.  But the terminal doesn't
> know how to display them.

To expand on Eli's reply....  Try running Emacs in X instead of in the
terminal emulator.  If the UTF characters are displayed correctly then
the problem is your terminal emulator.

BR,
Robert Thorpe