From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: [Reiter.Joachim@web.de: Failure to show "German Umlaute"] Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:50:49 +0000 Message-ID: <473EE3A9.7060302@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195303891 5790 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2007 12:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:51:31 +0000 (UTC) To: Richard Stallman , Reiter.Joachim@web.de, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 17 13:51:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ItN96-0002aV-5z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItN8t-0001Mv-4t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItN8n-0001LN-Qi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItN8i-0001EN-BM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItN8i-0001EF-4A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItN8c-0002th-Hg; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276C350051; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:51:05 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17001 Archived-At: Reiner Steib wrote: > This is a display problem on Windows. It's not specific to Gnus. > I.e. in the following file (or the attachment example_Umlaut.txt in > the original report) the display problem occurs as well: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > First line in : > > Zuletzt ge=F6ffnete Dateien > > First non-quoted line in : > > w=E4 w=F6 m=E4 m=F6 > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > =20 It's not clear to me what the bug is. The umlauts are clearly visible in both screenshots. Is the user complaining about the fact that some characters get clipped when Cleartype is enabled due to Windows supplying incorrect metrics for the font? If so, this is documented in etc/PROBLEMS.