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Re: [Groff] Why does backslash somtimes render as a yen symbol?
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] Why does backslash somtimes render as a yen symbol? |
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Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:26:16 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> > Why does backslash render as a yen symbol when I do M-x man 7 man?
>
> Because you are using the wrong locale, or the system is set up
> incorrectly. There are ASCII variants (or rather, ISO 646 variants
> like ISO 646-JP) which replace some ASCII characters. That's the very
> reason why there exists the Base64 stuff.
Hm...anybody have any idea how to make Emacs stop doing this?
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