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From: dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Problems with unicode characters under emacs and Xorg
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:32:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z6orqvb.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cunh7q82hpf.fsf@vroomfondel.hh.sledj.net>

David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> This works fine for me, and I get an appropriate character (not just the
> hex box).
>
> According to `describe-char' it's rendered using the Symbola font. Do
> you have that installed? (It's the "font-symbola" package on Debian I
> believe.)

I just installed the ttf-symbola package from AUR and ran fc-cache (not
sure if necessary).  Now the problem is completely gone.  Not only that,
but I even get the little memo symbol instead of a box with the hex code
point number.

Thank you so much!  This was driving me nuts for months.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-02 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-02  6:57 Problems with unicode characters under emacs and Xorg David Mazieres
2020-11-02  8:49 ` David Edmondson
2020-11-02  9:21   ` dm-list-email-notmuch
2020-11-02 10:09     ` David Edmondson
2020-11-02 10:32       ` dm-list-email-notmuch [this message]
2020-11-02 12:26         ` David Mazieres
2020-11-02 12:55           ` David Edmondson
2020-11-03 21:59             ` Tomi Ollila
2020-11-03 22:19               ` dm-list-email-notmuch

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