From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange font used for Cyrillic characters Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:01:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <825ed608-b14f-4e8e-9949-2442582ddd8c@googlegroups.com> <554a22b4-e369-4e1e-a3cb-70df03c3d55d@googlegroups.com> <3A5D9682-9685-4B1E-9EAA-02B45703FB37@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356040905 17072 80.91.229.3 (20 Dec 2012 22:01:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:01:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com To: =?utf-8?B?0JDQvdC00YDQtdC5INCf0LDRgNCw0LzQvtC90L7Qsg==?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 20 23:01:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TloBh-0005L0-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:01:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TloBU-0000jw-00 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:01:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TloBK-0000jP-9S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:01:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TloBG-0005rB-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:63788) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TloBG-0005qX-Bc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:01:30 -0500 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.148.182]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MA5v3-1TwYk53mUz-00BRha; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:01:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:BUkt6Z/iVtnEVM8qLHKFVMn9GEM5yWnxAsdgkmXB5+j FDsTXo0aseStrHiQvBjPwvxBySQj5dPkwU3u7IzlcH8aAFdC6A f8GbZ4rpnmFZY3w6VBmh3u/y1dwwg/I9TyHUf1M3cEdqYeUzvO UzmmUeu6WP1dhLj1YZXCMNZePp4IqY7Wfg6yHISEgOZNPHSXfe 3FVgNlrBNugeTdyxtjlDQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88265 Archived-At: Am 20.12.2012 um 22:40 schrieb =D0=90=D0=BD=D0=B4=D1=80=D0=B5=D0=B9 = =D0=9F=D0=B0=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=BC=D0=BE=D0=BD=D0=BE=D0=B2: > It seems really strange that Numbus got higher than say FreeMono which = is > system default. I'm not sure I can even submit a helpful bug report as = I > have very weak understanding about how fontconfig is supposed to work = :-/ It's obviously not a setup problem, I think. It looks more like there is = initially on a debian install no monospaced font to provide Cyrillic = characters (Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Mongolian?) =E2=80=93 = or you've missed to install support for Russian. After installing Linux = Libertine you have Cyrillic monospaced characters and so libfontconfig = recommends to use Libertine. Other options are the GNU Freefonts and particularly DejaVu (based on = Bitstream Vera), or the RedHat/Fedora Liberation fonts. >=20 > Anyway, Emacs "must be above suspicion". This gives a good feeling=E2=80=A6 -- Greetings Pete Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has = never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are = arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. =E2=80=93 H. L. Mencken