Re: font or face problem in emacs

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

H.S. wrote:

> I get the following in my emacs compiler message window (notice the 
> strange characters around the variables and function names):
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The strange characters around a variable are(I have typed the 
> backslashes and numbers so that they are displayed properly here):
> on left hand side: â\200\230
> on right hand side: â\200\231


This seems to have worked:
M-x prefer-coding-system RET utf-8 RET
which is from:
http://groups.google.ca/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/49787de21a638740/d3fdc305681db276?lnk=st&q=%22%5C200%5C230%22+emacs&rnum=2&hl=en#d3fdc305681db276


So, do I need to use the above command everything or is there a problem 
with the way emacs treats various locales? I have:
$> set | grep -i lang
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en

->HS