Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Peter Petersen: 

 > If I just launch gnome-terminal (with the same font "bitstream vera sans
 > mono") I do have all the German characters, the same is true if I launch
 > emacs from within a text console or from within an xterm.
 > 
 > What could I do to find out where the problem is? (launching emacs from
 > within gnome-terminal and losing all the non-ascii characters)

You need to work out what character encoding gnome-terminal is using, and
then run M-x set-terminal-coding-system RET iso-8859-1 RET, for
example. It’ll be either that or utf-8. Once you’ve worked out which is
right, add

(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)

to your ~/.emacs. 

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