Undisplayable Characters
Your terminal may be unable to display some non-ASCII
characters. Most non-windowing terminals can only use a single
character set (use the variable default-terminal-coding-system
(see Specify Coding) to tell Emacs which one); characters which
can't be encoded in that coding system are displayed as ? by
default.
Windowing terminals can display a broader range of characters, but
you may not have fonts installed for all of them; characters that have
no font appear as a hollow box.
If you use Latin-1 characters but your terminal can't display
Latin-1, you can arrange to display mnemonic ASCII sequences
instead, e.g. "o for o-umlaut. Load the library
iso-ascii to do this.
If your terminal can display Latin-1, you can display characters
from other European character sets using a mixture of equivalent
Latin-1 characters and ASCII mnemonics. Use the Custom option
latin1-display to enable this. The mnemonic ASCII
sequences mostly correspond to those of the prefix input methods.
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