Subject: Re: bug#28242: Batch mode compiling: Error messages are displayed with "invalid character" glyph bounding symbols.

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:05:04 +0000

Hello, Glenn.

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 12:47:21 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:

> If your system has the same issue with gcc warnings (and if you choose
> not to answer the question, a cynic like me will assume it does), ...

It does.

> ... then your system is misconfigured, and it's not important to
> improve Emacs's support for it.

I've looked into this.  My system is currently using the standard Linux
font, the one baked into the kernel.  I would have thought it rather
important to support properly - there will be lots of similarly
"misconfigured" systems around.

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-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).