Re: Japanese font settings ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On May 23, 2020, at 21:15, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
>> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 16:38:00 +0900
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> 
>> All in all, after too many hours wasted on this issue, I'm left with a solution that's exactly equivalent to finding a code snippet found on the web and I've not come any closer to a better understanding of how all that works.
>> 
>> What the emacs manual should have is:
>> 
>> 1) a link to the elisp manual for set-fontset-font
>> 2) the reference to list-character-sets and to script-representative-chars
>> 3) an example that applies set-fontset-font to a list of scripts
>> 3) a way to *find* a range of character: do we use list-character-sets, click on a given character set and from there ? Is there a better way ?
> 
> Thanks, I used this and other information you posted to improve that
> part of the manual.

Eli,

Thank you *very much* for this update. And I apologize for having been upset.

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(For convenience, the ‘han’ script in Emacs is set up to support all of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, a.k.a. CJK, characters, not just Chinese characters.)
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Does that mean that as far as emacs is concerned han also covers hiragana, katakana, bopomofo and various CJK symbols ? If that's the case, why did my first attempt when I specified 'han produced non-satisfactory results (the font applied to the Chinese characters by not to the kanas) but when I specified a given Japanese character set with the same font I got the expected result ?


Jean-Christophe Helary
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