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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The "name" parameter for #'make-frame
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:45:36 +0300 (IDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020530074354.11104A-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xb7u1orc6wo.fsf@camaro.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>


On 29 May 2002, Sau Dan Lee wrote:

> Starting Emacs21.2 with --no-site-file -q, and using 
> 	 (make-frame '((name . "abc")))
> 
> 	 gives an error: (error Font `fontset-16' is not defined)
> 
> Using "123" instead  of "abc" gives the same  error.  However, using a
> string of  only accented characters  in iso-8859-1 succeeds!

Does it help to read the entry in etc/PROBLEMS whose header reads "Emacs 
fails to start, complaining about missing fonts"?

In a nutshell, I suspect your fonts are set up so that ASCII characters 
in a frame's name need some font whose fontset definition is incorrect or 
misformatted.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29 15:25 The "name" parameter for #'make-frame Sau Dan Lee
2002-05-30  4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-05-31  7:42   ` Sau Dan Lee

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