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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:41:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuso30wh.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg88xza8.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:31:03 +0530")

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

>> On Ubuntu 20.10, I compiled and installed the git master version of
>> emacs. When I try to browse the web with eww, I find that all Chinese
>> characters will show as garbled.
>>
>> Any hints for fixing/solving this problem?
>
> You need ‘set-fontset-font’ to tell Emacs what font to use for the
> (language) script. Example,
>
>   (set-fontset-font t 'devanagari "Noto")
>
> This sets Noto font for Devanagari script in the default fontset. ‘t’ is
> for default fontset.

Emacs should display Chinese characters just fine on its own without any
configuration needed.

But it's hard to tell what the problem is since "garbled" doesn't really
tell us much.  Garbled how?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-14 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14  3:30 Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:01 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-14 14:38   ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:41   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-14 14:48     ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 14:56       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-14 15:19         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14 15:27           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-19 11:35             ` William Xu
2020-12-19 15:18               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-19 18:27                 ` William Xu
2020-12-20  1:13                 ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-14 18:59         ` Tomas Nordin
2020-12-14 23:22         ` Hongyi Zhao

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