From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs character/glyph problem Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:13:25 +1100 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <8764btlgyi.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <8074677.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167482463 5005 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 12:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 30 13:41:01 2006 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 1H0dWD-0002JE-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0dWD-00057R-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:57 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder.news-service.com!138.199.65.86.MISMATCH!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-03!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YDYIFjOLMdbbe4cM4zy7s+KMQmQ= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 30 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144426 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:40028 Archived-At: rpm13 writes: > Thanks! > > Peter Dyballa wrote: >> >> >> Search for this in the eMail archives. It's a debian problem with >> uncommon places to install fonts in. I wonder why these debian based >> or derived Linux distributions can't handle their stuff properly ... >> >> > > The relevant link on the ubuntu forums is > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285304 Ubuntu forums emacs/X link > Giving it here because others too are having this problem. Its hard to > believe that we are in an age when *nix can can be shipped without X windows > and emacs configured properly > I think this was specific to ubuntu. I've certainly had no problems with Debian Testing. I also thought it was a problem with a pre-release version of ubuntu and not an "official" release, in which case minor glitches like this are to be expected. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au