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23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:18:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
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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Subject: |
Re: bug#4084: 23.1; boxquote uses ugly ASCII "drawing" characters rather than Unicode |
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Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:17:09 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
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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