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Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Jason Rumney
Date: May 12, 2008 02:21

On May 12, 7:49 am, hora...@gmail.com wrote:
> I downloaded Emacs 22.2.1 for Windows, and I was pleased to find that
> Chinese characters work "out of the box" on my computer. However, I
> have a weird visualization problem for some characters. One example
> is ä½ ä½ . These two characters appear the same in Firefox, in Notepad,
> in the file system (ie Explorer), and in various other places.
> However, in Emacs, the character on the left appears as an empty
> square, but the character on the right shows up as the Chinese
> character for "you". Is there some way to make Emacs correctly
> display both versions of this character?

What is your default language set to in Windows? If it is not
Chinese, then Emacs might be making the wrong decision about how to
interpret ä½  when it is encoded as Unicode, and is looking for a
Japanese or Korean font which you don't have.
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