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From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Height of Unicode chars is not right
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 09:08:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d60e77d-ab45-46e5-b0c7-39c653a9fda8@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1606.1442937082.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 9:21:25 PM UTC+5:30, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Grant Rettke  writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Rusi  wrote:
> >> Some unicode chars display with excessive height
> >> eg if the file (buffer) has these 3 lines
> >
> >> emacs shows the ∀ as having 3 lines and the cursor triples its height on that
> >> The fraktur L 𝔏 looks like 5 (2 above 2 below)
> >>
> >> What should I do?
> >
> > What version of Emacs are you using? 

24.4.1

> > What font are you using? Is your
> > font a fixed width font? Do you have any packages installed that might
> > make the font appear larger?

Started emacs with -Q to avoid any clashes. Still the same

> 
> And check that the font used for those Unicode chars is the same as for
> the ASCII chars. Sometimes Emacs will swith to another font for
> displaying certain chars despite the default font having support for
> those chars.
> 
> M-x describe-char with the cursor on the interesting char will tell you
> the font used.

C-u C-x = for these three give

∀: xft:-unknown-TeX Gyre Termes Math-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#xEFE)

a: xft:-unknown-Ubuntu Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x44)

𝔏: xft:-unknown-Latin Modern Math-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#xD99)

So I guess I need to install some comprehensive unicode font like
adobe source code pro??


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-22 15:13 Height of Unicode chars is not right Rusi
2015-09-22 15:45 ` Grant Rettke
2015-09-22 15:50   ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-09-22 15:59   ` Sergey Organov
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1606.1442937082.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-22 16:08     ` Rusi [this message]
2015-09-22 16:41       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-22 17:27         ` Rasmus
2015-09-22 16:52       ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-09-22 17:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-22 17:12           ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-09-22 17:31             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1615.1442941512.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-22 17:10           ` Rusi
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1610.1442940060.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-23  1:57         ` Rusi
2015-09-23  6:47           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1638.1442990857.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-23 17:19             ` Rusi
2015-09-23 19:05               ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-09-23 19:06               ` Eli Zaretskii

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