Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> 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?

LANG is C
XTERM_LOCALE is C