From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:35:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <66341491-5c5b-406a-bb4c-7f02b7709983@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251333368 1231 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2009 00:36:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:36:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 02:36:01 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 1MgSy6-0005rh-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:35:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgSy5-0005NB-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:35:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 57 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251286561 24694 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2009 11:36:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172411 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:36 -0400 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:67575 Archived-At: On Aug 25, 8:21 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:38:02 -0500 > > From: "B. T. Raven" > > > Could the glyphs that still show up as boxes (math, industrial, > > computing, etc.) be made to appear if a fontset is used? > > I think so, but for me they appear without any customizations at all. > > > Why don't the ipa Symbols appear? They are part of Arial Unicode. > > I don't know enough about these issues. I suggest to submit a bug > report with "M-x report-emacs-bug". thanks Raven & Eli. humm... it show for you Eli out of the box. Strange. i don't have Arial Unicode MS, since it is part of Windows Office and OS X 10.5 both i don't have. my current choice is Lucida Sans Unicode, which provide the most unicode chars among my choices, but is not monospaced font. Works out well, except dired, and unusable in M-x calendar. The unicode here also lacks a lot, e.g. half of the bottom page's chars won't show http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode.txt but still is the font that shows the most on my machine. Code2000 shows almost all the unicode, but the font is so bad... it's not readable. Fixsys is not too bad, too dark and thick for me. It doesn't show more unicode than Lucida Sans Unicode. (it's bitmapped font. However, there's a TrueType version you can download from the web) Courier New and Lucida Console are both very good. monospaced, but they don't show that much unicode except the most basic ones. am guessing the problem really needs to be solved by some sort of font substitution. Browsers apparantly are all doing it and perfectly on my machine since they show all chars without user needing to set fonts. i guess in emacs that is fontset? I'm not sure if it is just fontset, or emacs also calls the OS's font api to complete part of the display... Eli, what version of emacs are you using? are you sure it's straight compile from source without customization? PS (i am pretty sure i posted this yesterday, but can't see the msg in google groups. This is a repost with some modification. Thanks to Christian too.) Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84