From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:05:28 -0400 Message-ID: <87hcf4aoc7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87d4pt3upl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205798907 27004 80.91.229.12 (18 Mar 2008 00:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 18 01:08:56 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 1JbPNs-0007MC-Nb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbPNH-0003u8-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbPNE-0003u3-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JbPNA-0003to-CS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbPNA-0003tl-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbPNA-0006aR-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB9D74E3B9; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:05:28 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2008 22\:54\:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:92861 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Chong Yidong 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