Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> The above will replace -> with a glyph for an arrow, 
>>> so the "perlfile.pl" buffer is unreadable, the glyph cannot be
>>> displayed in a terminal and it shows up as a question mark.
SM> Hmm... works for me (i.e. the arrow is displayed just fine in the terminal).
SM> Please make it a bug report with the usual details to reproduce it.
> I bet the difference is the set of fonts each terminal is configured to use.

I don't think so: the terminals I know don't replace a char with
a question mark if the font has no glyph for it (they use some other
representation, like an empty box).  It sounds instead like your
terminal is using an encoding that does not include those chars we're
using, so Emacs replaces them with a question mark.

What is your terminal's encoding?  What about your locale?


        Stefan