utf 8 problem

utf 8 problem

[Peter Smerdon]

Hi folks,

I have a somewhat general understanding of what utf-8 is but do not
understand all the ins and outs of character encoding and how to set it
up correctly on my computer.

I am simply looking to have gnus use special characters to denote thread
roots, leafs etc..

in my .gnus I have:

(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "►")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─►")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "└─►")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│")
(setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent " ")

Now I can read these in emacs without a problem, so I am assuming
(perhaps wrongly) that emacs understands these characters and displays
them properly. But if I start gnus, when entering a group with threads,
only the root arrow is displayed, the rest of the characters are square
blocks (I'm guessing a default symbol that is displayed when things go
wrong)

in my .gnus I have (setq gnus-default-charset 'utf-8) and like I said if
I open my .gnus in emacs I can see these characters fine, but in gnus I
cannot see them. I have tried several different fonts in my .Xresources (Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8
 or Emacs*font: Monospace-8) but none seem to work.

my emacs version is the ubuntu emacs-snapshot package:
GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
2008-03-19 on yellow, modified by Debian

my Gnus version bundled with emacs-snapshot is:
Gnus v5.13

My locale (if that matters):
[peter@thruxton:~]% locale charmap                   
UTF-8 

I would appreciate if someone could show me how to use these utf 8
characters when using Gnus.

Thank you!
-- 

Peter.

Re: utf 8 problem

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:48:05 -0400 Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca> wrote: 

PS> I am simply looking to have gnus use special characters to denote thread
PS> roots, leafs etc..

Take a look at Reiner's setup (I don't know how current it is, but
should be OK):

http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/gnus/rs-gnus-summary.el

PS> in my .gnus I have (setq gnus-default-charset 'utf-8) 

That's not for the UTF-8 support you want, it's for news and mail
character sets.

If you can open the file with your UTF-8 data and see all of it inside
Emacs, chances are very good Gnus will interpret it correctly as well.

Ted

Re: utf 8 problem

[Peter Smerdon]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> Take a look at Reiner's setup (I don't know how current it is, but
> should be OK):
>
> http://theotp1.physik.uni-ulm.de/~ste/comp/emacs/gnus/rs-gnus-summary.el
> Ted

Thank you Ted for pointing that out (and thank you Reiner!) my threading
looks pretty good now.
-- 

Peter.