From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I can't visualize any file in the Emacs Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:23:33 -0800 Message-ID: <87lkjlu4q2.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <8689719.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170092326 13701 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2007 17:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:38:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 29 18:38:39 2007 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 1HBaSi-0005v3-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:38:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBaSi-0001KG-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBaSX-0001KB-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBaSW-0001Jz-SX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBaSW-0001Jw-O5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HBaSW-0008Ky-9q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HBaSP-00088o-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:38:17 +0100 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:38:17 +0100 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:38:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W1SDfyVJA4xUHhVDBXpHL9Z94BY= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:40734 Archived-At: >>>>> "Amanda" == Amanda Ortega writes: Amanda> I only can see small squares where it would have to Amanda> be chars (letters, numbers, etc). >>From the file .../etc/PROBLEMS: ** Under X11, some characters appear as hollow boxes. Each X11 font covers just a fraction of the characters that Emacs supports. To display the whole range of Emacs characters requires many different fonts, collected into a fontset. If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection of fonts (available from and ) includes fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters. Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version of this character to display a space. -- I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.