Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters

[rahed <raherh@gmail.com>]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> At a guess, I suspect you are running under X. This means you have either a
> fontpath setting that points to directories containing the fonts your X server
> is able to provide or you have a font server configured. The boxes indicate
> that emacs wants to display the characters with a specific font, but it cannot
> find that font (either in your font path or from the font server). 
>
> There are a couple of points to keep in mind here. If your connecting to the
> solaris box from a remote system, such as a workstation, then the fonts need to
> be available to your local workstation X server, not on the solaris X server.
> In this case, the issue is with your local X configuration or the fonts it has
> available. 
>
> You can use a program like xfontsel, which will allow you to select fonts from
> those which are available to the X server. Use this program and try to identify
> a suitable font. Set the font for emacs to this font and things should work.
> This can be done in a number of ways, but to begin with and for
> experimentation, set it on the command line using the -fn option (I think its
> -fn, check the manual). Don't forget that since the font names contain *, you
> will need to quote the font string to prevent the shell from trying to expand
> the *. Once you have a font that works, set it in either your .Xresources file,
> your .emacs file or via customize. 
>

Thank you for your detailed reply.

I set a new unicode font with xset but when I use xfontsel to look at
the chars there are only boxes there.

So the issue is with Solaris.

-- 
Radek