Re: Unicode Strings in Emacs Info C-h i

[tomas]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 07:03:13AM +0000, Mike Vertolli wrote:
> I'm stumped at this point. Initially the values were displayed with escapes
> (e.g., /u2018). I swapped the localization to en_US.UTF-8 and now they are
> being displayed as small, square, filled-in boxes.

This might be a good sign, really :-)

>                                                   Re-coding in the editor
> has no effect (already reading the file as UTF8).
> 
> I'm running a Gentoo distro. I'd rather not have to find and replace.

My hunch is that Emacs displays the correct (Unicode) characters, but that
you don't have a suitable font (set).

As a first approach, put point on one of those little boxes and enter

  M-x describe-char

What happens?

You might want to install a more complete font. Unless you *want* to have
(non-ascii) Unicode characters displayed as \u2018, that is. In that case...
there should be an option for that, but I'd have to look it up, sorry.

regards
- -- t
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAlbZa30ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZUlACZAVPuFlji5SgXEUo2yRMRCEID
zmkAnRp6lhmISA2Knk4QBPlIOj896JFK
=am1f
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----