From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How hard would 16-bit fonts be? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:45:27 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87isx0nloz.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042016201 28359 80.91.224.249 (8 Jan 2003 08:56:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:56:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18WC0t-0007NC-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 09:56:39 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18WC5q-00020E-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:01:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WBwE-00012N-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:51:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WBsl-000060-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:48:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WBqf-0007ad-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18WBq8-0007Py-00; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h088jRRr008940 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:45:28 +0100 Original-To: John Wiegley Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030108:johnw@gnu.org:2522dc9c7237f8c4 X-Hashcash: 0:030108:johnw@gnu.org:2522dc9c7237f8c4 X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030108:emacs-devel@gnu.org:dd9a9fe1862e13fe X-Hashcash: 0:030108:emacs-devel@gnu.org:dd9a9fe1862e13fe In-Reply-To: <87isx0nloz.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> (John Wiegley's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2003 00:29:48 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10573 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10573 John Wiegley writes: > I'm starting to receive e-mail in Persian, and it's a bummer seeing > my *Article* buffers full of empty box characters. utf-8 displays > fine in Mozilla (using a TrueType Times Roman font); how much work > would be involved to handle the same character display in Emacs? Empty box characters usually mean you are missing fonts. Try installing all font packages you can find. Even after installing all available fonts from e.g. Debian it is not difficult to encounter empty boxes though. Even C-h H show empty boxes for Amharic, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Greek, Hebrew and Russian. If I start emacs with -fn -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1 I see the Greek, Hebrew and Russian text so it is possible to display them. Maybe emacs' font locator doesn't try hard enough to find an applicable font?