From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: divan@santanas.co.za Subject: Re: network-manager-openconnect setup - [External Email] Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 22:02:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87y2yxp79o.fsf@santanas.co.za> References: <87zhkgn60o.fsf@fnb.co.za> <87mugfa4jy.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i7PsN-0004tO-IR for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:03:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i7PsM-0002yN-HY for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:03:03 -0400 Received: from [156.0.193.126] (port=56973 helo=mail.santanas.co.za) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i7PsM-0002vw-2Q for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:03:02 -0400 In-reply-to: <87mugfa4jy.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: Help guix >> Bonus points for anyone who knows why when I copy and paste into Emacs I >> get these weird characters. >> >> 588:24 2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry "network-manager-ope=C3= =A2=C2=80=C2=A6" =C3=A2=C2=80=C2=A6) > > The weird characters above, "=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=A6", should be a "HORIZONTAL= ELLIPSIS" > character "=E2=80=A6" with unicode scalar value U+2026. In the UTF-8 enc= oding, > the horizontal ellipsis is represented by three bytes with hex codes E2, > 80, and A6. The three weird characters "=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=A6" are what you= get when > those three bytes are misinterpreted as Latin-1, a.k.a. ISO-8859-1 > encoding. > > Guile only outputs Unicode HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS in backtraces if your > current locale has an encoding for that character. Otherwise, it will > print three ASCII periods ("...") instead. So, it appears that your > locale environment variables (the ones printed by the "locale" command) > are configured for a UTF-8 locale. > > I guess that somewhere else in your system, something is configured to > use Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding. It could be Emacs itself, or perhaps > your terminal emulator. Mark, really appreciate above - thanks. It sorted my issue out.