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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:54:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewso19fu6.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4pt3upl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon\, 17 Mar 2008 17\:29\:42 -0400")

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
> font-related stuff closely.
>
> When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
> ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
> certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
> be displayed.
>
>  Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

On my system this selects
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 as the font
for upright ascii, whereas for italic characters it uses
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1.

Andreas.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 21:29 Unusable font on Emacs 23 Chong Yidong
2008-03-17 21:44 ` Chong Yidong
2008-03-17 21:54 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2008-03-18  0:05   ` Chong Yidong

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