Re: Encoding

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 11.06.2013 um 00:47 schrieb sirciny:

> How can I get rid of this error and keep my new font (and avoid the
> problem if I change my font attributes in the future)?

There is no connection between the font you've chosen and the encoding issue. 
If a font is missing the glyphs for characters used in some (exotic?) encoding, 
then replacement characters, open boxes, are used for them.

The mode-line of a buffer contains in the left corner an indicator for the 
encoding used.

GNU Emacs learns from environment variables which encoding to use or to prefer, 
for example LANG or LC_CTYPE. Try to set these! Then you won't need to set 
anything in GNU Emacs.

You could check GNU Emacs' behaviour when you launch it with -q or -Q and when 
LANG and/or LC_CTYPE are set to a reasonable value.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Upgraded, adj.:
        Didn't work the first time.