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Re: emacs broken - displays empty rectangles in place of all characters



On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:52:20AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Wed, 17 May 2006 01:50:36
> -0400 Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com> didst appear within
> my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory,
> did polemicize thusly:
> 
> > Hi Adam,
> > you may have an error that I found. Are you using an UTF-8 locale? if
> > so, do this:
> > 'LC_ALL=en_US emacs'
> > and see if that fixes it.
> > Cheers,
> > Kev
> 
> Thanks!  That (in particular, <LC_ALL=en_US mc>, that is, not emacs)
> fixed my font problem with midnight commander.  Now if only I could get
> it to hold that configuration...
Hi Cybe,
some apps do not support utf8 (yet?) as would be the guess for mc. The
issue I found with a few apps is that some still depend on gtk1.2 which
does not work with utf8. glad I could help x-)
Cheers,
Kev
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