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From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Chinese font in an English environment
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:22:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tzyjz4oo.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 410DC60F-95CF-42E8-934D-052E56FE0435@Web.DE

On 2007-01-22, Peter Dyballa said:

> Am 20.01.2007 um 11:45 schrieb Leo:
>
>> In an "English" environment, some Chinese characters are displayed
>> using Japanese fonts since there are character overlapping for both
>> languages. For example, 输入法 are displayed by two fonts as listed
>> below. This makes the style of Chinese text looks inconsistent. I am
>> wondering is there such setting that will make Emacs choose one font
>> over another.
>
> Have you thought of creating a fontset? Including statements like
>
> 	(set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons
> (decode-char 'ucs #x0d00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0d7f)) '("code2000" .
> "iso10646-1"))	; Malayalam
> 	(set-fontset-font "fontset-11pt_adobe_courier" (cons
> (decode-char 'ucs #x0d80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0dff)) '("akshar
> unicode" .  "iso10646-1"))	; Sinhala
>
> you can advise GNU Emacs to use a particular font for a particular
> range of Unicode characters.

This seems to the right solution. However, I have no clue what unicode
range for Chinese characters. BTW, how can I turn those
(set-fontset-font ...) into .Xresources settings?

-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-20 10:45 Chinese font in an English environment Leo
2007-01-22 11:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-01-22 11:22   ` Leo [this message]
2007-01-22 12:35     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] <mailman.3339.1169289957.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-22  9:16 ` Brep
2007-01-22 10:44   ` Leo

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