Re: font or face problem in emacs

[H.S.]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Make the *compilation* buffer be encoded in UTF-8 or make your LANG  or 
> LC_CTYPE environment variables 8 bit -- could be there is some  option 
> in your g++ to stay in 8 bit when printing some message.

Yes, that is one method. But with all this talk of systems being utf-8 
compatible and such these days, I was expecting that applications are 
getting better at this. If Emacs is not UTF-8 complaint, I would like to 
know for sure so that I can accomodate other applications I use. On the 
other hand, if Emacs is expected to recognize UTF-8, then there ought to 
be a way to make it do so by default. All I want to know is which way is it?

thanks for your explanations,
->HS