Re: recommended russian encoding

[Bruce Ingalls]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Bruce Ingalls wrote:
>  > However, when I tried opening the file in Emacs on Linux, the UTF-8
>  > encoded Russian characters displayed as garbage.
>
> Garbage?  Empty boxes would indicate that there's no available font, but
Checked again; I am getting empty boxes.

> bogus glyphs indicate a problem with the encoding.  Did you visit the
> file with `C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f'?

I think you got the above syntax wrong.
I'd also like to know what elisp to eval, to invoke utf-8 encoding

> Use `C-h h' to display the HELLO file.  Is the Russian text correctly
> displayed?  Does it make a difference if you invoke emacs with the
> --font=fontset-standard option?  How about disabling any Fedora
> customizations with --no-init-file --no-site-file?

Disabling the startup file made no difference.
C-h h does display Russian "hello" properly.
Emacs also works fine in -nw mode in an xterm.

This seems to demonstrate that the font is available...