emacs under X: No fonts match...iso10646-1

emacs under X: No fonts match...iso10646-1

[Kay Obermueller]

Hello all,
I've SuSE8.1 with Emacs 21.2.1 on it. It ran okay in the beginning. I 
installed JDE for Java development on it.
In the very X session I installed this everything seemed to be alright, and 
Emacs started with JDE. In that session I also installed Xemacs, but I 
didn't check afterwards the behaviour of Emacs.
After rebooting I got the message:

x-resolve-font-name: No fonts match 
`-efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1'

JDE didn't start any more, only in the console.
I tried in .Xresources (hints Google gave me...):

Emacs*borderWidth: 2
Emacs*internalBorder: 1
Emacs*reverseVideo:off


#ifdef COLOR
Emacs*borderColor: gold
Emacs*pointerColor: OrangeRed
Emacs*cursorColor: orchid
Emacs*foreground: #28f033330000
Emacs*background: #bffffffffc00
Emacs*modeline.attributeForeground: Navy
Emacs*modeline.attributeBackground:  lightgray
! colors for menubar
Emacs*pane.menubar*foreground:  black
Emacs*pane.menubar*background:  lightgray
Emacs*popup*background:         lightgray
Emacs*menu*.foreground: RoyalBlue
Emacs*menu*.background: gold1

#endif

#ifndef COLOR
Emacs*foreground: White
Emacs*background: black
Emacs*mouse:            white
Emacs*cursor:           white
#endif

!!Emacs*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

!!Emacs.font:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
!!Emacs*pane.menubar*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--*-90-100-100-m-*-iso8859-1


!Emacs.font:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
!Emacs.paneFont: -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso8859-1
!Emacs.selectionFont:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso8859-1
!Emacs.pane.menubar.font:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso8859-1
!Emacs.menu*.font: -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso8859-1
!Emacs.dialog*.font:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso8859-1

!Emacs.font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1            
Emacs.paneFont: -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso10646-1      
Emacs.selectionFont:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso10646-1 
Emacs.pane.menubar.font:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso10646-1                                                                            
Emacs.menu*.font:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso10646-1   
Emacs.dialog*.font:-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-*-iso10646-1

!! BEGIN intlfonts setup
!! By default, use 16 dots fonts
!! For small screen users (eg. 640x480 or 800x600)
Emacs.Fontset-0: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-10
Emacs.Fontset-1: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-12
Emacs.Fontset-2: -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-14
!! For meidum screen users (eg. 1024x780)
Emacs.Fontset-3: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-16
!! For meidum screen users (eg. 1024x780) suitable for Thai characters
Emacs.Fontset-4: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-18
!! For large screen users (eg. 1280x1024 or larger)
Emacs.Fontset-5: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24
Emacs.Fontset-6: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-12
Emacs.Fontset-7: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--11-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-11
Emacs.Fontset-8: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-10
Emacs.Fontset-9: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-14
Emacs.font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-12
!! END intlfonts setup



Now my Emacs looks totally different but the problem survived the changings.
In .emacs I tried:
(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard")
/* that should be one line, same as above */

xlsfonts of course doesn't list the font in question. Only some seemingly 
similar ones. 

"xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1 | grep fixed-medium" gave me:


-misc-fixed-medium-o-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-o-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-o-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-13-120-75-75-c-120-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ja-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
-xxl-ledfixed-medium-r-semicondensed--39-120-75-75-c-180-iso10646-1


Can one get this font somewhere, or how the heck can I tell Emacs to resort 
to one of the many others...?
Thanks in advance for any hint or idea!

Kay

Re: emacs under X: No fonts match...iso10646-1

[Ted Zlatanov]

See

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

for the latest 10646 font collection.  There are instructions for
installing them, too.  I have this in my .Xdefaults:

#define FONT_ISO -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
#define FONT_ISO_FULL -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
Emacs.Fontset-1: FONT_ISO
Emacs.Fontset-2: FONT_ISO_FULL
Emacs*font: FONT_ISO_FULL

Ted