From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs in Cygwin displays open boxes for all characters
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:54:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ac1e357-63b5-4efb-8074-85a135d64589@r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f96c1e71-fe53-4ec0-8436-1de9d9918017@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com
On Jun 1, 2:19 pm, David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed Cygwin on a new Windows box, along with the Cygwin-
> built Emacs (and XEmacs, for comparison). I'm having some issues with
> XEmacs, but with respect to GNU Emacs, when I start it, all the
> characters show up as open boxes.
>
> The console shows the following at startup:
>
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
>
> Would this be better asked on the Cygwin list?
Never mind. I found several "font"-related packages in the available
Cygwin packages. After I installed them and reran Emacs, it now
displays reasonable fonts.
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