From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jacquesal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Troubles with newsticker font in Fedora 11 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254166478 26397 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2009 19:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:34:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 28 21:34:31 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 1MsLzQ-0006Au-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:34:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34223 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsLzP-0002uZ-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:34:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.61.251.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1254131117 28592 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2009 09:45:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:45:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.61.251.98; posting-account=2xhVIwoAAABFRI-ZXPNeepRm4jUenSaq User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173384 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:32:09 -0400 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68516 Archived-At: Hello all, I'm certainly not an Emacs expert, but am trying to consolidate some of my text-related web browsing therein. RSS and Atom feeds are an ideal target, and I like newsticker. However, I'm having the strangest problem on a Fedora 11 box running Emacs 23.1. The default "face" of this precompiled binary of Emacs is DejaVu Sans Mono. However, when I enter newsticker-show-news, it reverts to _something else_ (perhaps the default "helvetica"). Both the feed tree and the headline list. The only part of newsticker that respects Emacs' default face is the story summary (bottom right). Now, I've been in the newsticker configuration and have tried to (a) change all faces to a font of my choice (font family: DejaVu Sans Mono) and (b) remove all references to the default "helvetica" that is perhaps causing the problem. No luck. This would not be an enormous problem if this undesired "face" were able to display western European accented characters. (I'm on a UTF8 locale.) It can't, and instead substitutes some random font for _only_ the accented characters. This renders the text very hard to read. Any ideas?