Fixed font in emacs 21.3

Fixed font in emacs 21.3

[Daniells, Phil]

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I've been using NT Emacs 20.4 for a long time with a decent fixed size font
(attached),
but NT Emacs 21.3 seems to just revert back to New Courier. I read that
there were
problems with fixedsys fonts in 21.1 which had been fixed, but this font
(along with similar
fonts of different sizes) does not work.
Hope someone can help to fix this.
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> Regards,
> 
Phil.


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Re: Fixed font in emacs 21.3

[Jason Rumney]

Daniells, Phil wrote:
> I've been using NT Emacs 20.4 for a long time with a decent fixed size font
> (attached),

The font has an invalid character set field, that is why Emacs will not
use it by default. Emacs 21.3 expects to see a Latin-1 font for the
default font. You can work around this by creating a fontset based on
that font:

(setq my-font (create-fontset-from-ascii-font "BROKEN_FONT_NAME"))

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist `(font . ,myfont))


Since that font appears to have been converted from an X font by some
conversion program, perhaps you could find out who wrote the conversion
program and contact them about writing a valid character set entry in
the fonts they are producing.