From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@Math.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?
Date: 09 Oct 2002 14:20:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lu1jvfp9c.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ao0hgi$1fim$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
>>>>> "Ilya" == Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:
> It looks like pointing-fingers was not dead-on-the-target; while Emacs
> is faulty, the principal blame should go to xrus-1251 and (allegedly)
> Netscape. An excerpt from
> http://www.siber.org/sib/russify/x-windows/#win-fonts
> Yes, now you can have CP-1251 fonts on your X Window system.
> We had to put them under the iso8859-5 because buggy Netscape would
> not allow these fonts to work under official CP-1251 name.
> So what I see may be a very widespread situation. Emacs can easily
> detect that the font *is not* a iso8859-5 font (since iso8859-5 has
> very few characters, and cp1251 has many). At least it could have
> given a warning...
It could also look at the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING property
of the font (rather than assuming it's the same as in the fontname) ?
BTW, I agree that the fontset management could be made simpler (I think
it's not just a question of the doc being dense or incomplete).
Especially in your case, there should be some way to say something like:
(fontset-prefer-font 'cyrillic-iso8859-5 "-etl-fixed-*-iso8859-5")
-- Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 18:20 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <ao0hgi$1fim$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
2002-10-09 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2002-10-09 20:03 ` MULE shows gibberish; now what? Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-09 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-10 0:55 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-10 0:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-10 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-10 1:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-10 0:58 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-10 1:30 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-10 1:08 ` Ilya Zakharevich
2002-10-10 2:02 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-10 6:44 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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