From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "weihan" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: big5 only on emacs-nox for Fedora core 6 Date: 6 Mar 2007 01:53:26 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1173174804.817819.301550@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <1172906831.774039.235910@t69g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1173058326.592016.241520@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <1173085124.907910.303370@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1173163936.535571.182480@n33g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173177644 25184 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2007 10:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 11:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOX5u-0007Ci-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOX5v-0007Qb-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 77 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.115.25.24 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1173174818 31841 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2007 09:53:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:53:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; zh-TW; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=140.115.25.24; posting-account=5kPnIg0AAABo4qcP-aG1YOCapxIh9-Ad Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146106 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:41710 Archived-At: On 3=A4=EB6=A4=E9, =A4U=A4=C84=AE=C930=A4=C0, David Hansen wrote: > On 5 Mar 2007 22:52:16 -0800 "weihan" wrote: > > > > > Dear David: > > Thank you for your help. My emacs on Fedora core 6 is 21.4.1. > > After I type the C-u C-x =3D on the Box as your suggest, here is > > the message shown by emacs > > > character: =A1=B1U (0453075, 153149, 0x2563d) > > charset: chinese-big5-1 (Frequently used part (A141-C67F) of Big5 > > (Chinese traditional)) > > code point: 44 61 > > syntax: word > > category: C:Chinese (Han) characters of 2-byte character sets > > c:Chinese > > |:While filling, we can break a line at this character. > > buffer code: 0x98 0xAC 0xBD > > file code: 0xA7 0xDA (encoded by coding system chinese-big5) > > font: -- none -- > > > Obviously, the emacs does not load the font properly. The font which I > > want to use > > are one of the following two : > > > -arphic technology co.-ar pl mingti2l big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0- > > c-0-ascii-0 > > -arphic technology co.-ar pl mingti2l big5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0- > > c-0-iso10646-1 > > I think these don't have the right encoding. My Emacs chooses a > font with the encoding "Big5-0". > > I think there are tools out there to create fonts of one encoding > from font fonts of another encoding (as long as the intersection of > common characters is big enough that it makes sense). But i can't > help on this topic. > > On Debian there are various xfonts-intl-* packages. They don't look > that nice but AFAIK they cover most scripts. > > Also you may find this page interesting: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/InternationalFonts > > > The .Xresources I set up is : > > > Emacs.Font: fontset-18 > > Emacs.Fontset-0: -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-18,\ > > ascii:-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1,\ > > chinese-big5-1:-*-ar pl mingti2l big5-medium-r-normal-*-*-0-*-*-c-*- > > ascii-0,\ > > chinese-big5-2:-*-ar pl mingti2l big5-medium-r-normal-*-*-0-*-*-c-*- > > ascii-0 > > Try this: Start xfontselect and set "rgstry" to big5, now pick any > of the not grayed out fonts. Also i think you can drop the "ascii" > part (Emacs should pick the default font for ASCII): > > Alternatively (an ugly workaround) you can start emacs within a > Unicode enabled XTerm: xterm -u8 with the font you have choosen > (the iso10646-1 one). Though i don't know how good the support for > asian scripts is (there are other terminal emulators that may be > better, e.g. rxvt-unicode or mlterm). > > David I do not have any font with rgstry as big5 on my Fedora core 6 during installation. I try to ftp some big5 fonts from my old red hat system and use (1) fc-cache (2) /etc/init.d/xfs reload to reload the fonts but still do not see big5 rgstry on xfontsel program. It seems a long way to go :-( weihan