Unusable font on Emacs 23

Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Chong Yidong]

Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
font-related stuff closely.

When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
be displayed.

 Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

To reproduce:

 emacs -q
 C-x k RET       (kill startup screen)
 asdfghj    

Anyone know what this is about?


In GNU Emacs 22.1.92.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2008-03-17 on cyd
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Chong Yidong]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 22.1.92.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
>  of 2008-03-17 on cyd
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
> configured using `configure  '--with-gtk''

Whoops, wrong emacs info.  I mean the latest CVS trunk.  The bug
doesn't happen on the branch.

Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Andreas Schwab]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
> font-related stuff closely.
>
> When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
> ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
> certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
> be displayed.
>
>  Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

On my system this selects
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 as the font
for upright ascii, whereas for italic characters it uses
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1.

Andreas.

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Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Chong Yidong]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
>
>> Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
>> font-related stuff closely.
>>
>> When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
>> ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
>> certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
>> be displayed.
>>
>>  Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>
> On my system this selects
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 as the font
> for upright ascii, whereas for italic characters it uses
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1.

On Emacs 22, this gives:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

On Emacs 23, I get (from cutting and pasting the contents of the
unreadable describe-fontset buffer):

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup