From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: The "name" parameter for #'make-frame Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:45:36 +0300 (IDT) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022734429 8604 127.0.0.1 (30 May 2002 04:53:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 04:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17DHwb-0002Ef-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 06:53:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17DHxF-00030G-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 00:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17DHuE-0002in-00 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 00:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA11201; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:45:36 +0300 (IDT) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Sau Dan Lee In-Reply-To: Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1686 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1686 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.