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: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6e107769-cd13-43f0-ac9f-8daa9fb83c5e@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com> References: <66341491-5c5b-406a-bb4c-7f02b7709983@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <9b617e7b-9840-499d-b22b-881e4a540a70@h21g2000yqa.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 1251432074 2941 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 04:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:01:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 06:01:07 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 1Mgse7-0003i0-BN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgse6-00023O-Sk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:01:02 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1251398192 24442 127.0.0.1 (27 Aug 2009 18:36:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a39g2000pre.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:172454 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:54:34 -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:67605 Archived-At: On Aug 26, 3:09=A0pm, Jason Rumney wrote: > On Aug 26, 7:35=A0pm, Xah Lee 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. =A0If 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