Re: fontset/font change

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Kenichi Handa wrote:
>>   ;; Enable Japanese fonts on Windows to be used by default.
>>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'katakana-jisx0201)
>>             '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'latin-jisx0201)
>>             '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208)
>>             '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208-1978)
>>             '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>>     
>
> In pre-unicode Emacs, make-char returned generic characters
> in the above calls.  But, as a concept of generic character
> is deleted in Emacs 23, the above setting anyway doesn't
> work now.
>   

> Note that U+203E is the only non_ASCII character in
> latin-jisx0201.
>   

I didn't know about that one (is it intended to be a combining macron?), 
but isn't ¥ also in latin-jisx0201 (at code point 92)?


> But, why do we have that kind of setting in term/w32-win.el
> only for Japanese? 

Because only Japanese uses SJIS on Windows.

> What does the registry "JISX0208-SJIS" exactly mean?

A JISX0208 font that is available in SJIS encoding. Is there a more 
standard way of writing that?

>   Why doesn't the default setting work?
>   

It seems it does now. I have removed those lines from w32-win.el.