Hi folks, I have a somewhat general understanding of what utf-8 is but do not understand all the ins and outs of character encoding and how to set it up correctly on my computer.
I am simply looking to have gnus use special characters to denote thread roots, leafs etc.. in my .gnus I have: (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "►") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─►") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "└─►") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│") (setq gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent " ") Now I can read these in emacs without a problem, so I am assuming (perhaps wrongly) that emacs understands these characters and displays them properly. But if I start gnus, when entering a group with threads, only the root arrow is displayed, the rest of the characters are square blocks (I'm guessing a default symbol that is displayed when things go wrong) in my .gnus I have (setq gnus-default-charset 'utf-8) and like I said if I open my .gnus in emacs I can see these characters fine, but in gnus I cannot see them. I have tried several different fonts in my .Xresources (Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8 or Emacs*font: Monospace-8) but none seem to work. my emacs version is the ubuntu emacs-snapshot package: GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-03-19 on yellow, modified by Debian my Gnus version bundled with emacs-snapshot is: Gnus v5.13 My locale (if that matters): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% locale charmap UTF-8 I would appreciate if someone could show me how to use these utf 8 characters when using Gnus. Thank you! -- Peter. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
