From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4716 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 01:45:36 +0100 Message-ID: <16958.6448.689501.926619@parhasard.net> References: <42345abc$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <39l973F60qa11U1@individual.net> <42359857$0$26554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <16949.42079.854993.937945@parhasard.net> <4235b0e4$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <3a6f5jF652kulU1@individual.net> <423e131d$0$9220$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670631 24582 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:12 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net /KNyNMYxewjtfo3qEHHmqQHmnH/NTfDIwny4R0RDFEhRDsk/T3 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, Linux-i686) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LFHykUD+AwlvYb/DbVlV5HlfEvY= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4857 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4857 Tue Jan 17 17:34:12 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4716 Archived-At: Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Peter Petersen: > If I just launch gnome-terminal (with the same font "bitstream vera sans > mono") I do have all the German characters, the same is true if I launch > emacs from within a text console or from within an xterm. > > What could I do to find out where the problem is? (launching emacs from > within gnome-terminal and losing all the non-ascii characters) You need to work out what character encoding gnome-terminal is using, and then run M-x set-terminal-coding-system RET iso-8859-1 RET, for example. It’ll be either that or utf-8. Once you’ve worked out which is right, add (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) to your ~/.emacs. -- “I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien