Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
font-related stuff closely.

When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
be displayed.

 Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

To reproduce:

 emacs -q
 C-x k RET       (kill startup screen)
 asdfghj    

Anyone know what this is about?


In GNU Emacs 22.1.92.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
 of 2008-03-17 on cyd
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t