From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fonts not displayed Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:32:21 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258010227 29120 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2009 07:17:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:17:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 08:17:00 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 1N8TvP-00012S-ES for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:16:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8TvO-0001M5-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:16:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8TET-0005nY-DS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8TEO-0005hs-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50893 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8TEN-0005hY-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55093) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8TEN-0004lp-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:32:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N8TEL-0004kG-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:29 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69688 Archived-At: 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