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23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Roger Leigh <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>
Subject: bug#4084: marked as done (23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII
 "drawing" characters rather than Unicode)
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:25:05 +0000

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has caused the Emacs bug report #4084,
regarding 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode
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From: Roger Leigh <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:18:16 +0100

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The standard boxquote looks like this:

,----[ title ]
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi et
| dolor vitae quam fringilla vulputate ac id sapien. Nullam auctor
| consequat magna in fringilla. Praesent sed dolor vel felis
| condimentum faucibus eget in risus. Phasellus dignissim vehicula
| purus, non tempus arcu rutrum vel.
`----

However, since Emacs now has perfectly good Unicode support, the
following shows boxquote configured to use standard Unicode line drawing
characters with rounded corners:

(set-variable 'boxquote-bottom-corner "╰")   ; U+2570
(set-variable 'boxquote-side "│ ")           ; U+2572 + space
(set-variable 'boxquote-top-and-tail "────") ; U+2500 (×4)
(set-variable 'boxquote-top-corner "╭")      ; U+256F

╭────[ title ]
│ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi et
│ dolor vitae quam fringilla vulputate ac id sapien. Nullam auctor
│ consequat magna in fringilla. Praesent sed dolor vel felis
│ condimentum faucibus eget in risus. Phasellus dignissim vehicula
│ purus, non tempus arcu rutrum vel.
╰────

Much nicer!  It would be great if these could be made the default in
place of the ugly ASCII.


Regards,
Roger


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2009-08-03 on nautilus, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10603000
configured using `configure  '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=athena' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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From: Roger Leigh <rleigh <at> codelibre.net>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 4084-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4084: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters
	rather than Unicode
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:17:09 +0100

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:37:46PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-08-08 11:18 (+0100), Roger Leigh wrote:
> > The standard boxquote looks like this:
> 
> Boxquote is not part of the standard Emacs. I guess you need to contact
> the author of boxquote.el or someone who distributes your version of
> Emacs.

Ah, sorry, I didn't realise it was part of an extension package
(emacs-goodies-el).


Regards,
Roger

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