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I use Emacs ESS for doing some work in R. But somehow the help messages or content which is output of R process, is not printed correctly, most likely because of some encoding issue. (Screenshot included below) enter image description here

But if I do the same using the R console, it works fine as seen below: enter image description here

Any advise how to fix the encoding issue in Emacs ESS.

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  • It looks like the font Emacs is using doesn't have all the symbols R is trying to print. What version of Emacs, and what operating system are you using? The first thing I'd try is M-x menu-set-font. If you can find the same font that your terminal uses that might fix things. – Tyler Jun 25 '18 at 13:40
  • I am using Emacs 25.2.2 on Ubuntu 17.10. When I tried M-x menu-set-font, I am getting a message Window System Frame should be used. I am not sure whether that is a problem. – Sandesh Jun 25 '18 at 14:31

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