From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 character question
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:17:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcoprrsuh2d.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6183b9c0-e6c8-41f3-a44f-52fca5d170d9@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com
I should have made the following addition to my previous post:
+ horatio@gmail.com:
> However, in Emacs, the character on the left appears as an empty
> square, but
The empty box is emacs' way of displaying a character it doesn't know
how to display, meaning it is not present in the current fontset. This
doesn't tell you how to solve the problem of course, but it tells you
something about where to look for a solution.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 6:49 UTF-8 character question horatio
2008-05-12 7:14 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-12 7:51 ` horatio
2008-05-12 8:07 ` horatio
2008-05-12 8:16 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2008-05-12 8:35 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-12 9:37 ` horatio
2008-05-12 7:17 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2008-05-12 9:21 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-12 15:42 ` Peter Dyballa
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