From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp>
Cc: 12693@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12693: 24.2.50; src/w32font.c should depend on ANSI code page
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:52:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3uhjthd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5j0ddgj.wl%%xmue@d1.dion.ne.jp> (Kazuhiro Ito's message of "Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:46:04 +0900")
Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr@d1.dion.ne.jp> writes:
> When I run Emacs on Cygwin with the native Windows UI, I can't specify
> font by non-ascii font name. For example, the below code success on
> precompiled binary on Windows (Japanese edition) but raises error on
> Cygwin with the native Windows UI.
>
> (set-default-font "ＭＳ ゴシック-14")
>
> The reason is that lfFaceName member of LOGFONT structure is expected
> to be encoded in ANSI code page, but Emacs encodes in or decodes as
> the coding system specified in locale-coding-system variable. It is
> set to utf-8-unix on Cygwin and causes the above problem.
This is a problem with the Cygwin build's initialisation of
locale-coding-system. It is supposed to be set to the coding system that
system calls will accept, which on Windows cannot be utf-8 (maybe on
recent versions it can be, but when I tried on Windows XP, it caused all
manner of problems).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-23 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 21:46 bug#12693: 24.2.50; src/w32font.c should depend on ANSI code page Kazuhiro Ito
2012-10-23 11:52 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2012-10-23 13:05 ` Kazuhiro Ito
2012-10-23 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-25 21:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-10-26 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-23 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-13 16:16 ` bug#12693: [cygwin] Setting fonts with non-ascii names throws error quit Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-14 8:40 ` Kazuhiro Ito
2020-09-14 10:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-14 11:38 ` Kazuhiro Ito
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