From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Should the fonts listed by xlsfonts be used by emacs? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:23:51 +0100 Organization: freedom2surf Message-ID: References: <1150949401.924040.84970@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1151210979.271816.101440@y41g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151361657 17112 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 22:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:40:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 27 00:40:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuzkx-00050Z-1H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuzkw-0003m6-J3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.astraweb.com!newsrouter-eu.astraweb.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!proxad.net!news.clara.net!wagner.news.clara.net!peernews.inweb.co.uk!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1151360744 10711 83.67.23.108 (26 Jun 2006 22:25:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:25:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[, }O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZRWn4Bwn/DB4PMY60/93jZ+tS+0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140054 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35678 Archived-At: "c.c" writes: > I think the 'emacs -fn' wants a ASCII font name, but the name I gave > is a mbyte font name, so Emacs can't generate a fontset correctly. There was an -iso8859-1 version of the same font, try that (since it is generating a fontset, you should still get the -gb2312.1980-0 font you want for the Chinese characters). On the other hand, it is proportional, which may also cause problems for use as the default font.