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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fonts not displayed
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:32:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hdga58$m5s$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnhfgm54.amc.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>

Joost Kremers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having a weird font problem on a recent install of Emacs, as shown here:
> 
> http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~kremers/Emacs-font-weirdness.png
> 
> As can be seen, the text in the text area looks like a bar code or something.
> The fonts in the menus is not affected, but the tool tips are.
> 
> This is on a Ubuntu 9.10 for PowerPC installation, with Emacs 23.1.1. The
> screenshot shown here is an Emacs instance started with `emacs -Q'.

What does `C-u C-x =' display when point is before one of the bar code
characters?

> I've tried selecting a different font through the menu "Options | Set Default
> Font...". This does change the dimensions of the Emacs window (so some
> adjustment to the new font is made), but any font I've tried is displayed in the
> same way...

Does that affect the font information displayed by `C-u C-x ='?

> I'm not entirely sure if this is an Emacs issue or whether something else is
> wrong, but so far it only seems to happen with Emacs. I'm hoping someone has an
> idea what might be going wrong...

Very weird indeed...

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-12  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-09 17:59 Fonts not displayed Joost Kremers
2009-11-12  6:32 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.10545.1258007559.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-12 23:49   ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-13 11:22   ` Joost Kremers

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