From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <637bd413-f8d0-4c7f-ba76-de55f0be576a@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <66341491-5c5b-406a-bb4c-7f02b7709983@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com><9b617e7b-9840-499d-b22b-881e4a540a70@h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <6e107769-cd13-43f0-ac9f-8daa9fb83c5e@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251654104 11648 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2009 17:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:41:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 30 19:41:37 2009 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 1MhoPI-0002i4-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhoPH-00030F-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:41:35 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 118.101.136.133 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251653929 30791 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2009 17:38:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=118.101.136.133; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172531 comp.emacs:98673 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:67672 Archived-At: On Aug 30, 12:22=A0am, Xah Lee 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.