Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

[Jason Rumney]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've tried M-x set-language-environment <CR> latin-1.  The mode line of
> my *scratch* looks like this:
>   
If you DON'T do that, after starting emacs -Q, what does C-h L <CR> report?

It should be initialised to the same as your terminal language 
environment, which is what you need when running in a tty.

> > Do you use X emacs, emacs in a tty, etc.?  If tty emacs, which type of
> > terminal do you use?
> >     
>
> A Linux tty.
>   

More specific please. Console? Serial? xterm? GNU screen?