Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el

[Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de>]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 12 2004, Artem Baguinski wrote:
>
>> Jørn Helge B. Dahl <jornd@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> [...]
>>> I have a UTF-8-enabled locale, and I use
>>>
>>>   (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>>   (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>>   (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>>   (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>>   (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>
>> i think just having utf-8 locale is enough, 
>
> Often people change too many of the *-coding-system-* stuff without
> being aware of the consequences and run into problems later.  Usually
> it's enough to set the systems locale or use
> `set-language-environment' in Emacs.
>
>> because [having used emacs / gnus only a week and not knowing much
>> configuration options yet] i simply pasted the fragment with unicode
>> arrows into my .gnus and it worked right away.
>
> This depends only on the coding used for reading the .gnus.el file
> (using a cookie as suggested, or putting the Unicode arrows stuff in a
> separate file including a cookie).  
>
> The locale and coding settings in Emacs are independent of this.  You
> can use Unicode arrows in the summary with any locale and coding
> system settings (e.g. I use a Latin-1 locale).
>
I still have problems setting up unicode chars for emacs/debian.

locale says:

fab@rechner1:~$ locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8@euro"
LC_ALL=

and

fab@rechner1:~$ locale charmap
UTF-8


 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "┌▶")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "  ")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent " ▷")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├┬►")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "╰─►")
 (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent "  ")

But I don't see them in my summary buffer. When I copy the summary-buffer it
looks nice; only the spaces between the vertical lines should be different:

| ● nice summary-format
O  =|Di 14:28  || Jørn Helge B. Dahl      |    0|  2.5k | ├─► 
O  =|Mi 16:56  || Ted Zlatanov            |    0|  1.8k | │├─► Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el (was: nice summary-format)
O  =|Mi 17:22  || Yair Friedman           |    0|  1.9k | ││├─► 
O  =|Mi 22:29  || Ted Zlatanov            |    0|  1.5k | │││╰─► Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el
%  =|Mi 18:02  || Jørn Helge B. Dahl      |    0|  2.7k | ││╰─► Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el (was: nice summary-format)
O  =|10:41     || Artem Baguinski         |    0|  2.1k | ││  ╰─► Re: Gnus doesn't load with Unicode chars in .gnus.el
R  =|11:32     || Reiner Steib            |    0|  3.1k | ││    ╰─► 
O  =|Mi 22:39  || Ted Zlatanov            |    0|  2.3k | │╰─►

Any hints?
Greetings!
-- 
Fabian Braennstroem
Duesseldorf/Berlin