From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:16:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251222083 5444 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2009 17:41:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:41:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 19:41:16 2009 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 1Mg017-0001R3-AW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mg016-0003UP-Nz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:41:08 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:16:20 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: X-No-Archive: yes Original-Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.73.132.39 Original-X-Trace: sv3-1MKXeBJNLUHrgiTAsofJ44VON4Q9PSyRmO8ExLc5rEQKItkK9beZGJBiFN/NsZdFK72QwDykIhTXl1y!6q2uMcg84henydjwZpFojXubMCvX7VE734S21G+pryYoKsUkQH0B0db2JgElTQwLqIioB+ByO4Xl!7n1xU9Ne3JkUp/N2XU2bLrmL4VBfOw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2178 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172380 comp.emacs:98653 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-Gmane-Expiry: 2009-09-08 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67523 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > i have this unicode file > http://xahlee.org/emacs/unicode.txt > > when viewed in latest Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, on > Windows (Vista), all char shows. But many chars don't show in emacs 23 > for Windows of the same machine. I tried many fonts... Courier New, > Lucida Console, Lucida Sans Unicode... but none shows all as browsers > do. > > any one got idea how to fix this? > > Lucida Sans Unicode shows most, but unfortunately, it's not monospaced > font. > > Thanks. > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄ Try Arial Unicode MS. That covers the widest swath of Unicode ranges of any font supplied by MS. Code 2000 might show even more. I don't know if you can construct fontsets on the w32 build of Emacs (I could never get them to work) but that route might get you the same coverage as with Arial Unicode MS. Ed