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From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:38:49 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <637bd413-f8d0-4c7f-ba76-de55f0be576a@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a67d283b-5590-4f9d-99b4-52864bdae490@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com

On Aug 30, 12:22 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:

> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Lucida Sans Unicode")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "courier new")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Fixedsys")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "FixedsysTTF")
>
> but i do need to set size because the size spec is not equivalent
> among fonts. e.g. One font at size 14 will be too large/small for
> another font at 14.

(set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Lucida Sans Unicode-12")

Appendix C.7 in the Emacs manual contains a section about font names.
It is a bit X specific - stating which naming schemes work for Xft and
X fonts, but on Windows the first three methods should work.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-30 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-25  6:20 getting unicode chars to show on Windows Xah Lee
2009-08-25 17:16 ` B. T. Raven
2009-08-25 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-26  5:48   ` AW: " Christian.Strobl
2009-08-26  5:50   ` Christian.Strobl
     [not found] ` <mailman.5342.1251225106.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-25 22:38   ` B. T. Raven
2009-08-25 22:42     ` B. T. Raven
2009-08-26  3:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5389.1251256888.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-26 11:35       ` Xah Lee
2009-08-26 22:09         ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-27 18:36           ` Xah Lee
2009-08-28 10:40             ` Florian Beck
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5571.1251456046.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-28 14:00               ` Xah Lee
2009-08-28 23:40                 ` Florian Beck
2009-08-29  0:20                 ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.5608.1251505221.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-08-29 16:22                   ` Xah Lee
2009-08-30 17:38                     ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-08-31 15:23                     ` Drew Adams
2009-08-27  3:22         ` Eli Zaretskii

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