From: Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: utf 8 problem
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:48:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wxiuqmy.fsf@magma.ca> (raw)
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.
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-06 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-06 22:48 Peter Smerdon [this message]
2008-06-09 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-09 22:08 ` Peter Smerdon
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