From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Entering Unicode characters Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83twmkkv16.fsf@gnu.org> <56B7901A.6080700@gmail.com> <8337t1dcq4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455063174 23984 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2016 00:12:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:12:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 10 01:12:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOi-0005Ws-L9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:12:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOh-0005Bc-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOd-0005BD-Va for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOd-0005kz-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOZ-0005ii-Gc; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aTIOY-0007o8-Kl; Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:12:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <8337t1dcq4.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:18:11 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199651 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > When Emacs displays on a TTY frame, the font is out of its control. > The font is determined by the terminal emulator or the console config > files, That's right. and Emacs wouldn't know where to find the font even when told > its name. Why not? Emacs could know the usual place where these font files are stored, and some Lisp code could find a particular font file just like the command that tells the terminal which font to use. > In particular, if you login from another machine, the font used by the > terminal emulator is not accessible at all for Emacs that runs on the > remote. In theory, it might not be present on the machine Emacs is running on. But in practice, it probably is present, if they are both GNU/Linux. And if the font is NOT present there, you could copy it there and tell Emacs the file name to find it in. So I think what I proposed is doable, practically speaking. It would take work, of course, but there is nothing difficult about it in principle. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.