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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>>> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes: |
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>>>>> Recently emacs (running in X "window" mode) seems to have developed a |
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>>>>> font problem. |
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>> Perhaps it is a font issue. |
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> Yes, I think it probably is. |
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>> I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the |
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>> splash screen) and then did C-u C-x = while the cursor was on the "b" in |
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>> "Learn basic keystroke commands". The help buffer includes |
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>> display: by this font (glyph code) |
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>> xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x45) |
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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...". You don't need to have DejaVu, |
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but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. |
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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". |
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I have "coding system utf-8-unix". Unfortunately I know very little |
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about coding systems but do wonder why ours are different since we |
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both did emacs -q. Unfortunately if we do emacs -Q to eliminate |
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some system customization, there is no splash screen. The |
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description of UTF-8 says it is for unicode. Perhaps your nil |
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coding system has trouble with unicode, but I am afraid this has |
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gotten outside my expertise. |
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sorry for not being more helpful. |
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allan |
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