Re: Bad display for character entity references

[Jay Rogers <jay.rogers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>>>>> In [emacs-w3m : No.07669] Jay Rogers wrote:
>
>> I'm getting mail from MS-Outlook users who HTML encode a
>> "right single quotation mark" as &#8217;
>
>> When reading the mail with gnus and emacs w3m, the character
>> is incorrectly displayed as the character "Latin small
>> letter u with grave" i.e the character represented by &#249;
>
>> I'm using w3m-0.5.1 and emacs_w3m 1.4.3.
>
>> Is this a known bug?
>
> Check your ~/.emacs file or site files which Emacs loads when
> starting up.  You might find something like the following line:
>
> (standard-display-european 1)
>
> It might be t, not 1.  This modifies the standard-display-table.
> Although I don't know how it is useful in the Latin world, it is
> generally harmful.

Yes, that was the problem.  Many thanks.









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