From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp2 ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id 7NRWAxbon19lfQAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:05:58 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp2 with LMTPS id 0LI9OhXon19wCgAAB5/wlQ (envelope-from ) for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:05:57 +0000 Received: from mail.notmuchmail.org (nmbug.tethera.net [144.217.243.247]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB0329402B0 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 11:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nmbug.tethera.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.notmuchmail.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7489020315; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 06:05:49 -0500 (EST) X-Greylist: delayed 2000 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at nmbug; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 06:05:47 EST Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (www.scs.stanford.edu [IPv6:2001:470:806d:1::9]) by mail.notmuchmail.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAD221FFF8 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 06:05:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from market.scs.stanford.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.16.0.45/8.16.0.45) with ESMTP id 0A2AWP9K044006; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 02:32:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=scs.stanford.edu; s=scs; t=1604313145; bh=r9XH1kEYLBPYglhWdi4Tfo7/bdfX409TabLQvb0AQ1c=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version; b=O7Zx2nMxYwEj+fndv/oDwuM2rixwZ3IQ7NldK7JF0X/vH9TIrWCCYHb+ZO4Dp4qGm 8ZKDqPUhkt93DHZxZFi1k3Oz7+ah2lAr3shUwHGyFEzXnm3Sh6w8MhYRqP2wEGP+pj VUrpr/vQLRaVa/rrjOpk6uHVulzfnqt34xYtrAn4= Received: (from dm@localhost) by market.scs.stanford.edu (8.16.0.45/8.16.0.45/Submit) id 0A2AWOlj092860; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 02:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu To: David Edmondson , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: Problems with unicode characters under emacs and Xorg In-Reply-To: References: <87pn4w9rex.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> <87o8kg15dv.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:32:24 -0800 Message-ID: <875z6orqvb.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID-Hash: 7UMYN2F2PNY557UQEJGK2RHNGHA7XEQR X-Message-ID-Hash: 7UMYN2F2PNY557UQEJGK2RHNGHA7XEQR X-MailFrom: return-m4ui9uhmd6wktey56mybfauhva@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-notmuch.notmuchmail.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.2.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David Mazieres expires 2021-01-31 CET List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: ns3122888.ip-94-23-21.eu Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail (body hash did not verify) header.d=scs.stanford.edu header.s=scs header.b=O7Zx2nMx; dmarc=none; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org designates 144.217.243.247 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=notmuch-bounces@notmuchmail.org X-Spam-Score: -0.01 X-TUID: se88lhFW1/Df David Edmondson 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