From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special characters on Emacs/Mac? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:22:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87vf82b7fx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <392a0eF5u0gl1U1@individual.net> <87zmxfcz62.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <16941.11734.284988.657561@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110288930 16929 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 13:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 14:35:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8erV-000857-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:35:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8f5y-0001jc-SC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8f41-0001do-E4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8f3g-0001U7-Rm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:47:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8f3g-0001Qn-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8efh-0002JP-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.25.242]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050308132248.JWMT1919.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC190D749E; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:22:47 -0500 (EST) Original-To: saint@eng.it In-Reply-To: <16941.11734.284988.657561@mail.eng.it> (Gian Uberto Lauri's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:45:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24621 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24621 >>> Actually I think the problem is not the input, but the font: how do >>> I change my (set-face-font 'default "-apple-Bitstream Vera Sans >>> Mono-regular-r-normal--13-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman") to use >>> ISO-Latin-1 encoding instead of mac-roman? The documentation >>> didn't really help me there... (and my tries were worthless) SM> No, the font itself uses mac-roman encoding, so you'd have to SM> change the font-data itself. Emacs happily uses fonts with SM> mac-roman encodings, so there's no reason to make such a change. > It was a long and weary battle but I got some advice and solved the > problem with this: Please remember that this is a development version, so you shouldn't try to just work around problems. Instead you should report them via M-x report-emacs-bug so that they can be addressed. Proving a workaround in the bug report can be a useful addition, tho. I.e. please report your problem via M-x report-emacs-bug, thank you. Stefan