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On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> What does C-u C-x = give on your system |
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>> character: b (98, #o142, #x62) |
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>> preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) |
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>> code point: 0x62 |
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>> syntax: w which means: word |
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>> category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman |
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>> buffer code: #x62 |
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>> file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil) |
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>> display: no font available |
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>>> and do you have that font available? |
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>> No, I don't seem to have Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 |
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>> availble according to xfontsel. |
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> Three points |
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> 1. Did you build emacs with xft support? |
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> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" |
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> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like |
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> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". |
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Oops -- cut/paste error. |
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I don't have that font using the whole pattern either. |
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> You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either |
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> DejaVu or bitstream vera. |
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I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I could point emacs |
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at one of the rougly 4000 I've already got. |
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> 3. Your output and mine differ in one point (before the font issue) |
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> You have "coding system nil". I have "coding system utf-8-unix". |
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> Unfortunately I know very little about coding systems but do |
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> wonder why ours are different since we both did emacs -q. |
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> Unfortunately if we do emacs -Q to eliminate some system |
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> customization, there is no splash screen. The description of |
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> UTF-8 says it is for unicode. Perhaps your nil coding system has |
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> trouble with unicode, but I am afraid this has gotten outside my |
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> expertise. |
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I do have one computer where emacs does find a font for the "about" |
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screen, so I guess it's a matter of comparing the two. |
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