From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: anhnmncb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs could not show this symbol. Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:25:11 +0800 Organization: Bentium Ltd. (CN99) Message-ID: <86prug7gns.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> References: <86ejb08qsv.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <86y798s6q8.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <86mypo9e3w.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <86mypmgcuh.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> <86zltluu1w.fsf@freebsd.hasee.cpu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204245644 18835 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 00:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 29 01:41:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JUtJF-00005W-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:41:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUtIj-0000zF-Ch for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.bbh.net.cn!news.szu.edu.cn!news.cn99.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.6.39.130 Original-X-Trace: news.cn99.com 1204250109 7147 221.6.39.130 (29 Feb 2008 01:55:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.cn99.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:55:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4RuHTnPQYBYfscO4hBzgVE1sSr0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156587 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:51952 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > I admit that I am not the font or fontset expert, I would have used > here a gb2312.1980-0 encoded for the chinese-gb2312 encoding, a > gb18030.2000-0 encoding for the gb18030 encoding, and a tis620-2 > encoded font for the thai-tis620 encoding. For mule-unicode-0100-24ff > encoding I would use a font that has more to offer than Monotype > Courier, Lucida Sans Typewriter or DejaVu Sans Mono or Free Mono. > Well, anyway, I should improve my own settings, too, and learn from > this a bit. Vista courier has a symbol even dejavu doesn't contain :``ˏ'' , could you see it? ;p >> (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" >> 'thai "-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1") >> (set-default-font "fontset-dejavu") >> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "fontset-dejavu")) > > You were constructing a "fontset-default" and then you're setting a > "fontset-dejavu" to be used as default? I admit, documentation > (particularly examples) of fontsets can be improved. I think this setting is meant that when the fontset-dejavu donesn't have a suitable font to show the character, then emacs will use fontset-default instead, don't know if I correct, but I find that this setting works well for me. > >> And many times emacs could not align a line correctly, > > Because you are using monospaced and proportionally spaced fonts in > your fontsets: > > *-*-p-*-iso10646-1 > *-*-m-*-iso10646-1 I changed dejavu sans mono to dejavu sans, and m to p, did not work. -- Regards, anhnmncb gpg key: 44A31344