From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "c.c" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Should the fonts listed by xlsfonts be used by emacs? Date: 24 Jun 2006 21:49:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1151210979.271816.101440@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> References: <1150949401.924040.84970@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151214041 13849 80.91.229.2 (25 Jun 2006 05:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:40:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 25 07:40:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuNMO-0004EU-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuNMN-0001xJ-Up for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.51.213.211 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1151210984 8143 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2006 04:49:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 04:49:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1150949401.924040.84970@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.51.213.211; posting-account=1HJPWQ0AAABjD-0dp0eOHR7okgsqAHRf Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140017 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35641 Archived-At: Hi, guys, I found the answer, the manual says: " If you specify a default ASCII font with the `Font' resource or the `-fn' argument, Emacs generates a fontset from it automatically. This is the "startup fontset" and its name is `fontset-startup'. " I think the 'emacs -fn' wants a ASCII font name, but the name I gave is a mbyte font name, so Emacs can't generate a fontset correctly. Thanks you all. Best regards. c.c