Re: Emacs 23.1.97 pretest

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:07:31 -0700
> From: Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Some Japanese characters don't render correctly.  One such example
> character is the middle letter in the word game "ゲーム".  Another one
> I found is the dot character here between 1 and 2 "１・２".

But Emacs says quite clearly what is the reason, I think:

>         character: ー (12540, #o30374, #x30fc)
> preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
>        code point: 0x30FC
>            syntax: w 	which means: word
>          category:
> 		   .:Base, H:2-byte Hiragana, K:2-byte Katakana, j:Japanese, |:line breakable
>       buffer code: #xE3 #x83 #xBC
>         file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-dos
>           display: no font available
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>         character: ・ (12539, #o30373, #x30fb)
> preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
>        code point: 0x30FB
>            syntax: _ 	which means: symbol
>          category:
> 		   .:Base, K:2-byte Katakana, c:Chinese, j:Japanese, |:line breakable
>       buffer code: #xE3 #x83 #xBB
>         file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-dos
>           display: no font available
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Could it be that you have no fonts for these characters?