Unicode in emacs -nw (was: How to change message-citation-line-function)

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Nov 19 2004, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>> 山中何所有
>>> 岭上多白云
>>> 只可自怡悦
>>> 不堪持寄君
>>
>> wow! chalk one up for Gnus!

Most of the abilities are in the Emacs you are using, not in Gnus.

> It displays it in X, but not on a UTF-8 terminal, even though the
> terminal is capable of displaying this and Emacs/Gnus are able to
> display some other non-ASCII characters on that terminal.
>
> UTF-8 support in Emacs sucks. It covers only a small subset of
> characters.

It will better in the next release.  I can see the CJK characters in
CVS Emacs if I do the following:

- $ uxterm -font '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1'

- $ emacs-cvs -nw -f gnus

- Select your article (or one of the previous ones) ==> I see hollow
  boxes.

- Do `M-x describe-char RET' [1] on the char.  ==> The characters is
  displayed correctly in the *Help* buffer.

- Go back to the Summary buffer and hit `g' ==> all chars in the
  article are displayed correctly.

Maybe it is because of "charset=gb2312" instead of "utf-8"?  Yes:

| Message-ID: <v96541vl90.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
| Newsgroups: gmane.test

... is displayed correctly without a previous `M-x describe-char RET'.

I don't know if this is a bug in CVS Emacs or if the user is supposed
to initialize or setup something WRT "gb2312".  If it is not the
latter, I'll report it as a bug.

Bye, Reiner.

Crosspost & Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help

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