font problem persists (was: wikipedia and UTF8 coding (emacs21))

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:


   Stefan> So instead, you should only specify the font family, and
   Stefan> size, while the charset is automatically selected by Emacs
   Stefan> (which will use the iso10646-1 font for the Unicode chars,
   Stefan> ...).

   >> emacs -font  "-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1"

Ok then I tried

   >> emacs -font
   "-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-m-0-*-*"

And the behaviour is the  same, that is 
 C-h h displays Hebrew and Greek correctly.
However when I open a file, which I recently have edited with Greek
and Hebrew symbols and saved as UTF-8, those symbols are displayed as
empty boxes.

Strange enough, when I chose an input mode, say Greek or Hebrew (no
BIDI support but anyway), the symbols I *then type* but only these are
correctly displayed, I save them as UTF-8 leave the buffer, reenter
the buffer and _again_ I just see just empty boxes.

Now I just downloaded and installed fonts from
http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi the m17nfonts. These fonts allow to display
even Hebrew with nikkud.
Now

When I start emacs like

alias e6   'emacs -font
"-m17n-mule-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-90-iso10646-1" -bg
grey86 \!* &'

(I know I should not) then everything is displayed nicely, however
these fonts a proportional fonts, I would prefer fixed fonts of the
courier type.


So what can I do?


Thanks

Uwe Brauer