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How to make unicode characters visible in Emacs?

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Mar 15, 20264141 views
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Problem

When I open a file with some UTF-8 text in it the characters show up as boxes. I think I have a font missing, because I can safely edit these boxes and the changes will turn out correctly when I look at them in another text editor (for example from Vim in terminal). Also at startup Emacs prints out…

Error Output

Warning: no fonts matching `-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' available [2 times]

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Fix for: How to make unicode characters visible in Emacs?

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Try and set DejaVu Sans Mono as the font. That's a font for Unicode that is normally installed by default on any Linux distribution.

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