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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e107769-cd13-43f0-ac9f-8daa9fb83c5e@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9b617e7b-9840-499d-b22b-881e4a540a70@h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com

On Aug 26, 3:09 pm, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 26, 7:35 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > humm... it show for you Eli out of the box. Strange.
>
> Some fonts, particularly CJK ones which tend to cover a substantial
> part of the BMP but have many gaps, seem to get in the way of (nearly)
> full coverage fonts like Arial Unicode MS by default.
>
> > 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 don't know how the browsers are doing it, perhaps they come with
> predefined lists of fonts that are commonly installed on Windows to
> cover different ranges.
>
> > 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...
>
> Yes, in Emacs that is a fontset, and the difference between what
> people are reporting is caused by the fact that the default fontset
> defines rules that are based on information other than the font name
> by default.  If you know what fonts best support different characters
> on your system, I'd recommend redefining the default fontset to use
> your preferred fonts using (set-fontset-font t ... ...). There are
> many examples of using this function in lisp/international/fontset.el,
> along with a list of scripts that Emacs recognizes as the third
> argument (in script-representative-chars); another simple one below:
>
> (set-fontset-font t 'phonetic "Lucida Sans Unicode")

Thanks. Spent a couple of hours reading about emacs fonts... am still
pretty much nowhere.... agh emacs.

 Xah


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-27 18:36 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 [this message]
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
2009-08-31 15:23                     ` Drew Adams
2009-08-27  3:22         ` Eli Zaretskii

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