* Unescaping character display.
@ 2017-05-28 16:06 rvclayton
2017-05-28 16:32 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: rvclayton @ 2017-05-28 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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?
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-28 16:06 Unescaping character display rvclayton
@ 2017-05-28 16:32 ` John Ankarström
2017-05-28 18:06 ` R. Clayton
2017-05-28 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: John Ankarström @ 2017-05-28 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rvclayton; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
rvclayton@acm.org writes:
> 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).
If it's any help, I can tell you that that letter in the middle
of L and VE is Ö - the same as in my name! :-)
On my installation of Emacs, (describe-package 'love-minor-mode)
displays the following summary:
> Minor mode for working on LÖVE projects
I think it's supposed to be jokingly pronounced with an
"ea"-sound as in "early" :-)
- John
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-28 16:06 Unescaping character display rvclayton
2017-05-28 16:32 ` John Ankarström
@ 2017-05-28 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-29 14:39 ` rvclayton
1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2017-05-28 17:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> 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.)
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-28 16:32 ` John Ankarström
@ 2017-05-28 18:06 ` R. Clayton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: R. Clayton @ 2017-05-28 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: john; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Thanks for your reply to my message.
If it's any help, I can tell you that that letter in the middle
of L and VE is Ö - the same as in my name! :-)
Yes, I know: the (two different typefaces of) umlaut-o shows up in your
message, which I'm reading in rmail in emacs. But running list-packages here
still gives me \303\226. I was thinking it might be a font problem, but I
guess it's more of an encoding problem.
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-28 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2017-05-29 14:39 ` rvclayton
2017-05-29 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: rvclayton @ 2017-05-29 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Thanks for replying to my message.
Delete the above 3 lines, restart Emacs, and see if you get a more
reasonable display.
They're gone, but the problem remains.
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-29 14:39 ` rvclayton
@ 2017-05-29 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-29 19:34 ` R. Clayton
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2017-05-29 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: rvclayton@acm.org
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 10:39:49 -0400
>
> Thanks for replying to my message.
>
> Delete the above 3 lines, restart Emacs, and see if you get a more
> reasonable display.
>
> They're gone, but the problem remains.
What happens in "emacs -Q"?
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-29 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2017-05-29 19:34 ` R. Clayton
2017-05-29 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: R. Clayton @ 2017-05-29 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
What happens in "emacs -Q"?
The same problem after futzing with package-archives. \303\226 is the utf-16
octal escape sequence for a capital O with an umlaut (or diaeresis if you want
to be that way). I think I'll have to figure out where to drop a few utf-16
indicators into my init files.
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-29 19:34 ` R. Clayton
@ 2017-05-29 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-29 22:58 ` R. Clayton
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2017-05-29 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: rvclayton@acm.org (R. Clayton)
> Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 15:34:11 -0400
>
> What happens in "emacs -Q"?
>
> The same problem after futzing with package-archives. \303\226 is the utf-16
> octal escape sequence for a capital O with an umlaut (or diaeresis if you want
> to be that way).
You mean UTF-8, not UTF-16.
In any case, at this point you should file a bug report with all the
details, because "emacs -Q" shouldn't fail to decode UTF-8 text.
> I think I'll have to figure out where to drop a few utf-16
> indicators into my init files.
??? Can't say I understand what that is about. "utf-16 indicators"?
what's that?
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* Re: Unescaping character display.
2017-05-29 20:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2017-05-29 22:58 ` R. Clayton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: R. Clayton @ 2017-05-29 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
You mean UTF-8, not UTF-16.
Yeah, probably.
In any case, at this point you should file a bug report with all the
details, because "emacs -Q" shouldn't fail to decode UTF-8 text.
That's what I was thinking (or "thinking"). I'd seen o-with-umlauts in rmail,
so I figured utf-8 was covered correctly, leaving utf-16 (or utf-32, but that's
ridiculous).
Can't say I understand what that is about. "utf-16 indicators"? what's
that?
A symbol or string or keyword indicating utf-16 is relevant in some way, like
is used in gnus-group-name-charset-group-alist. I imagined such a mechanism
exists to solve the problem, but a quick look around wasn't too promising.
I'll dink around with this a while longer. If I don't get anywhere, I'll file
a bug report. Thanks for your help.
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