This issue still exists. :)... Best Wishes 2008/6/7 Kevin Yu : > character: ʵ (23454, #o55636, #x5b9e) > preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030) > code point: 0xCAB5 > syntax: w which means: word > category: C:Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets > c:Chinese > |:While filling, we can break a line at this character. > buffer code: #xE5 #xAE #x9E > file code: #xCA #xB5 (encoded by coding system > chinese-gb18030-unix) > display: by this font (glyph code) > -outline- -normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-gb2312.1980-0 > (#x1172) > > Emacs displays the font family name as:"\320\302\313\316\314\345" > those octal bytes represent for "ÐÂËÎÌå", in fact it isn't the font I tell > emacs to choose for Chinese characters. > > By the way, in the elisp manual, all localized strings are showed as octal > bytes, Here's an example: > > -- \272\257\312\375: funcall function &rest arguments > `funcall' calls FUNCTION with ARGUMENTS, and returns whatever > FUNCTION returns. > > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:23 AM, Jason Rumney wrote: > >> Kevin Yu wrote: >> > If you input any Chinese into a new buffer, Ntemacs will use the same >> > font as ASCII characters (iso8859-1). Of course that font is not >> > suitable for Chinese, so I get only white spaces on the window. >> > describe-char shows that emacs has detected that it's a Chinese >> > character, but chosen a wrong font(wrong charset): >> > character: ʵ (23454, #o55636, #x5b9e) >> > preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030) >> > code point: 0xCAB5 >> > -outline-Monaco-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 (#x03) >> >> Another font that maps unsupported glyphs to 0x03 instead of 0x00. >> DejaVu Sans Mono seems to do this too. Perhaps it is common amongst >> truetype fonts that were not designed for Windows. >> >> > if I open a existed file with Chinese characters, everything goes well. >> >> Can you show the output you get from C-u C-x = in that case? It seems >> strange that a different font would be used for the two cases. Perhaps >> comparing the two outputs will give some clues. >> >> >