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From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:31:03 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg88xza8.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POJ7PLKz07pNeDXb8-c2TPE_p=HwC0N1=WCCuwj0Y8mhrA@mail.gmail.com> (Hongyi Zhao's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:30:12 +0800")

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> On Ubuntu 20.10, I compiled and installed the git master version of
> emacs. When I try to browse the web with eww, I find that all Chinese
> characters will show as garbled.
>
> Any hints for fixing/solving this problem?

You need ‘set-fontset-font’ to tell Emacs what font to use for the
(language) script. Example,

  (set-fontset-font t 'devanagari "Noto")

This sets Noto font for Devanagari script in the default fontset. ‘t’ is
for default fontset.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14  3:30 Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:01 ` Pankaj Jangid [this message]
2020-12-14 14:38   ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:41   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-14 14:48     ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:56       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-14 15:19         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14 15:27           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-19 11:35             ` William Xu
2020-12-19 15:18               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-19 18:27                 ` William Xu
2020-12-20  1:13                 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 18:59         ` Tomas Nordin
2020-12-14 23:22         ` Hongyi Zhao

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