Re: Pango-like font fallback (was Re: Russian numero sign)

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>]

Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <200603082016.37147.pogonyshev@gmx.net>, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > I went to install all the fonts I could find in my Debian Sarge.  And
> > found cronyx-courier font, which looks nice _and_ has Cyrillic
> > characters.  However, when I customize the default face in Emacs and
> > set that font family, latin characters are still displayed in
> > adobe-courier (though Cyrillic ones are shown in cronyx-courier)...
> > And the customization doesn't take any effect after I restart Emacs...
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Perhaps that because you don't have
> -cronyx-courier-...-iso8859-1.  Emacs by default uses an
> iso8859-1 font for ASCII.  To change it, you must create a
> proper fontset by one of these ways:
> 
> (1) In your .emacs:
> 
> (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
>  "-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-fontset-cronyx17,
> ascii:-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1")

Maybe too late to answer, but I solved it by adding the code above
and

(setq default-frame-alist
      (cons (cons 'font
		  "-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1")
	    default-frame-alist))

in my `.emacs'.

Thanks.

Paul