Re: font or face problem in emacs

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

H.S. wrote:
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> and I compile it with:
> g++ -Wall -ansi -o testprog testprog.cc
>
> I get the following in my emacs compiler message window (notice the 
> strange characters around the variables and function names):
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> g++ -Wall -ansi -o testprog testprog.cc
> testprog.cc: In function ‘int main()’:
> testprog.cc:6: warning: unused variable ‘i’
> testprog.cc:6: warning: unused variable ‘j’
>
> Compilation finished at Thu Jun 29 15:01:30
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> [...]

Hi H.S.

Those are the utf8 versions of the left and right single quote symbols. 
Evidently, your compiler thinks that you want it to output error 
messages and warnings in utf8.

HTH