Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Stefan Monnier 
<foo@acm.com>], who wrote in article <5lwup7kw31.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>:
> >> >        font: -Cronyx-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-RAWIN-R
> [...]
> > ???  I do not use that font.  How many times should I repeat that tt
> > is *Emacs* who choses this font?  My resources for fonts are
> 
> But there is no `cronyx' or `rawin-r' anywhere in the code of Emacs, so it
> must get some "help" from somewhere in order to choose this font.
> Normally for charset <foo> it looks for fonts with names of the form
> *-...-*-*-<foo>, so there has to be something somewhere that tells Emacs to
> use `rawin-r'.

"Something else" does not help.  What can it be?  I posted the
relevant parts of 'xrdb -query | grep -i font'.  What else?

> Can you do `M-x describe-face RET default RET' and tell us which
> font Emacs says it's using ?

         Family: misc-fixed
          Width: normal
         Height: 120
         Weight: bold
          Slant: normal
     Foreground: black
     Background: white
      Underline: nil
       Overline: nil
 Strike-through: nil
            Box: nil
        Inverse: nil
        Stipple: nil
Font or fontset: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-*-1
        Inherit: unspecified

> Can you then do M-x describe-fontset RET <the name> RET and show
> us what that says ?

[Aside: the output buffer has no trailing NL.]

Fontset: -*-*-bold-*-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-fontset-startup
CHARSET or CHAR RANGE	FONT NAME
---------------------	---------
ascii					-misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
     [-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--8-80-75-75-P-50-ISO8859-1]
     [-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-O-Normal--14-100-100-100-P-82-ISO8859-1]
     [-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-P-82-ISO8859-1]
     [-Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1]
latin-iso8859-1		-misc-fixed-*-iso8859-1
     [-Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1]
latin-iso8859-2		-*-iso8859-2
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO8859-2]
latin-iso8859-3		-*-iso8859-3
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO8859-3]
latin-iso8859-4		-*-iso8859-4
thai-tis620			-*-*-*-tis620-*
     [-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-80-tis620.2529-1]
greek-iso8859-7		-*-*-*-iso8859-7
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO8859-7]
arabic-iso8859-6	-*-*-*-iso8859-6
hebrew-iso8859-8	-*-*-*-iso8859-8
     [-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO8859-8]
katakana-jisx0201	-*-*-*-jisx0201-*
     [-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-JISX0201.1976-0]
latin-jisx0201		-*-jisx0201-*
cyrillic-iso8859-5	-*-*-*-iso8859-5
     [-Cronyx-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-RAWIN-R]
latin-iso8859-9		-*-iso8859-9
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO8859-9]
latin-iso8859-15	-*-iso8859-15
latin-iso8859-14	-*-iso8859-14
japanese-jisx0208-1978	-*-*-*-jisx0208.1978-*
chinese-gb2312			-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-*
     [-ISAS-Fangsong ti-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-c-160-GB2312.1980-0]
japanese-jisx0208    -*-*-*-jisx0208.1990-*
     [-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-150-75-75-C-160-JISX0208.1990-0]
korean-ksc5601		-*-*-*-ksc5601.1989-*
     [-Daewoo-Gothic-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-C-160-KSC5601.1987-0]
japanese-jisx0212	-*-*-*-jisx0212-*
chinese-cns11643-1	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-1
chinese-cns11643-2	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-2
japanese-jisx0213-1	-*-*-*-jisx0213.2000-1
chinese-big5-1			-*-*-*-big5-*
     [-ETen-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-150-75-75-C-160-Big5.ETen-0]
chinese-big5-2		-*-*-*-big5-*
chinese-sisheng			-*-sisheng_cwnn-*
ipa						-*-muleipa-*
vietnamese-viscii-lower				-*-viscii1.1-*
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-VISCII1.1-1]
vietnamese-viscii-upper	-*-viscii1.1-*
arabic-digit			-*-*-*-mulearabic-0
arabic-1-column				-*-*-*-mulearabic-1
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-MuleArabic-1]
ascii-right-to-left	-*-iso8859-1
lao					-*-*-*-mulelao-1
     [-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-80-MuleLao-1]
arabic-2-column		-*-*-*-mulearabic-2
     [-ETL-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-160-MuleArabic-2]
indian-is13194		-*-*-*-is13194-devanagari
indian-1-column			-*-*-*-muleindian-1
     [-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-MuleIndian-1]
tibetan-1-column	-*-*-*-muletibetan-1
mule-unicode-2500-33ff	-*-iso10646-1
mule-unicode-e000-ffff	-*-iso10646-1
mule-unicode-0100-24ff	-*-iso10646-1
ethiopic			-*-*-*-ethiopic-unicode
     [-Admas-Ethiomx16f-Medium-R-Normal--16-150-100-100-M-160-Ethiopic-Unicode]
chinese-cns11643-3	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-3
chinese-cns11643-4	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-4
chinese-cns11643-5	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-5
chinese-cns11643-6	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-6
chinese-cns11643-7	-*-*-*-cns11643.1992-7
indian-2-column			-*-*-*-muleindian-2
     [-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-MuleIndian-2]
tibetan			-*-proportional-*-muletibetan-2
     [-TibMdXA-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-160-MuleTibetan-0]
japanese-jisx0213-2	-*-*-*-jisx0213.2000-2