From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What happened to unicode? Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:07 +0000 Message-ID: <47E42303.9070603@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206133566 18089 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 21:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Neal Becker Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 22:06:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcoR7-0005p4-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcoQX-0005EH-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcoQT-0005Ci-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcoQR-0005AH-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcoQR-0005A3-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcoQQ-0006R7-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from golden1.harpegolden.net (86-43-162-68.b-ras2.prp.dublin.eircom.net [86.43.162.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 2" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0443843E; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:05:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080110) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:93143 Archived-At: Neal Becker wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >> I've been using the unicode branch of cvs. After updating today, it no >> longer builds, telling me that the unicode branch is merged into mainline >> and I should do cvs update -A. I did. >> >> Now I'm looking at a file and emacs doesn't display unicode characters. >> Any ideas? >> > Looks like if I do: > emacs -fn Monotype > > I get good results. > > How do I make this default? I tried via customize (customize face default), > but that doesn't seem to work. > > Customizing face default is broken for me too - placing in my .emacs something like the following seems to work though (you might want to replace the font name (DejaVu Sans Mono) and size (10)): (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-10")) ;; also for custom default background + foreground colors: (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "midnightblue")) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "lightgoldenrod")) I filed it as a bug: http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=35