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Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:16 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.9i |
Hi, Emacs,
Once again, I'm getting silly characters on the screen. In *scratch*,
where's I've written "ñ", what gets displayed is "\361". It may have
happened when I upgraded to Emacs 23.
This keeps happening to me, I don't know why, but most importantly it
seems unusually poorly documented. Goodness knows how an ordinary user
manages this, but I cannot easily track down the proper bit in the
manual to sort this out.
Things like character sets and their display isn't my area. Why won't
it just work?
I go to the coding systems page. There is no @def{coding system}, just
vague references with which you're supposed to get the understanding by
osmosis. What I DON'T get from this osmosis is whether or not "coding
systems" deal with the garbage "\361" on my screen. There is definitely
a missing "For the appearance of the text on your screen @ref{...}".
So, once again, I've got between half an hour and an hour of wasted time
trying to debug, yet again, this problem. Why can I not easily find the
answer in the Emacs manual?
Of secondary importance, why does this problem keep happening in the
first place?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.,
Alan Mackenzie <=