>> Bonus points for anyone who knows why when I copy and paste into Emacs I
>> get these weird characters.
>>
>> 588:24 2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry "network-manager-opeâ¦" â¦)
>
> The weird characters above, "â¦", should be a "HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS"
> character "…" with unicode scalar value U+2026. In the UTF-8 encoding,
> the horizontal ellipsis is represented by three bytes with hex codes E2,
> 80, and A6. The three weird characters "â¦" are what you get when
> those three bytes are misinterpreted as Latin-1, a.k.a. ISO-8859-1
> encoding.
>
> Guile only outputs Unicode HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS in backtraces if your
> current locale has an encoding for that character. Otherwise, it will
> print three ASCII periods ("...") instead. So, it appears that your
> locale environment variables (the ones printed by the "locale" command)
> are configured for a UTF-8 locale.
>
> I guess that somewhere else in your system, something is configured to
> use Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) encoding. It could be Emacs itself, or perhaps
> your terminal emulator.
Mark, really appreciate above - thanks.
It sorted my issue out.
