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From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:42:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Fsqdncieud0v9QnXnZ2dnUVZ_ixi4p2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XLidnaWyor9Y-gnXnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net>

B. T. Raven wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
>>>
>>> i have this unicode file
>>> http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode.txt
>>>
>>> when viewed in latest Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, on
>>> Windows (Vista), all char shows. But many chars don't show in emacs 23
>>> for Windows of the same machine.
>>
>> I see almost all of them, with the same Emacs 23.1.  According to
>> "C-u C-x =", Arial Unicode font is your friend.  But in my case, Emacs
>> uses it automatically, even in "emacs -Q".
>>
>>
> 
> Eli:
> 
> Could the glyphs that still show up as boxes (math, industrial, 
> computing, etc.) be made to appear if a fontset is used?
> 
> Why don't the ipa Symbols appear? They are part of Arial Unicode.
> 
> Btw, Xah, I think it's a great bit of black humor to include the chinese 
> swastikas, sickle and hammer, among cultural symbols. I guess the 
> destruction of culture still has something to do with culture. u+2638
> 
> p.s. Now I find most of the other open boxes in Arial Unicode also (via 
> babelmap).
> 
> Ed


Code2000 font shows all of them but the glyphs aren't very crisp looking.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-25 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  6:20 getting unicode chars to show on Windows Xah Lee
2009-08-25 17:16 ` B. T. Raven
2009-08-25 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-26  5:48   ` AW: " Christian.Strobl
2009-08-26  5:50   ` Christian.Strobl
     [not found] ` <mailman.5342.1251225106.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-25 22:38   ` B. T. Raven
2009-08-25 22:42     ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2009-08-26  3:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5389.1251256888.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-26 11:35       ` Xah Lee
2009-08-26 22:09         ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-27 18:36           ` Xah Lee
2009-08-28 10:40             ` Florian Beck
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5571.1251456046.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-28 14:00               ` Xah Lee
2009-08-28 23:40                 ` Florian Beck
2009-08-29  0:20                 ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.5608.1251505221.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-29 16:22                   ` Xah Lee
2009-08-30 17:38                     ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-31 15:23                     ` Drew Adams
2009-08-27  3:22         ` Eli Zaretskii

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