Hello Guix: I am reporting this because there are no other similar cases on the mailing list and because I think this might be a bug and not my error.
Emacs Magit and Emacs shell don't dispaly special characters (such as ñ, í, ó) on their output. It is strange because a command that includes a special character is displayed. But a special character from the output will not be displayed correcly. Those special characters are displayed correctly on afairs such as opening a file with those characters. With 'emacs -Q' I did not have that problem. When copying .emacs.d to another directory, setting that directory as HOME and running emacs with 'mkdir ~/temp', 'cp ~/.emacs.d ~/temp/' and 'HOME="~/temp" emacs', it would not use my configurations. But it would not have the problem with Emacs shell. Emacs Magit would not be available either. The same situation is with 'emacs -Q' as with 'HOME="~/temp" emacs'. Sample from BASh displaye correctly: quiliro@GSD3 ~/magit/prueba0$ git log commit 0904ec46cb737d2116d59b0b7c4f0c21a74feb70 (HEAD -> master) Author: quiliro <quiliro+comm...@fsfla.org> Date: Sun Sep 8 15:43:09 2019 -0500 Modificación remota commit 5024f6d525b1b61cd2691aaaa60dde07ae6f489f (origin/master) Author: ramiro.ordonez <quiliro+fab...@fsfla.org> Date: Sun Sep 8 13:20:11 2019 -0500 Añadí a mi amor quiliro@GSD3 ~/magit/prueba0$ Same command sample from Emacs shell displayed incorrectly: quiliro@GSD3 ~/magit/prueba0$ git log WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) commit 0904ec46cb737d2116d59b0b7c4f0c21a74feb70 (HEAD -> master) Author: quiliro <quiliro+comm...@fsfla.org> Date: Sun Sep 8 15:43:09 2019 -0500 Modificación remota commit 5024f6d525b1b61cd2691aaaa60dde07ae6f489f (origin/master) Author: ramiro.ordonez <quiliro+fab...@fsfla.org> Date: Sun Sep 8 13:20:11 2019 -0500 Añadà a mi amor quiliro@GSD3 ~/magit/prueba0$ I am not sure if this is related that in Icecat I sometimes see square boxes with numbers inside them in place of characters. But other special characters are displayed. That is probably a missing font. It could be a separate problem. Happy hacking!