From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 26.3, 28; Set Default Font... CMU Typewriter Text Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 05:55:47 +1100 Organization: BMF Prizefighter 'President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: <83o8uook0k.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="125947"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ofw0eTJ5ZcVIrHLJ14zgNl8sQ5E= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 19:57:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9Zv-000Wif-1U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:57:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9Zu-0002GC-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9Za-0002Fs-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9ZZ-0000f5-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:44980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9ZZ-0000e7-IY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw9ZY-000WFY-5a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:57:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122303 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> The font to preload is 'CMU Typewriter Text' and I expect the sequence >> of binary from file are interpreted by Emacs, magically, into code >> points that map to characters in the Unicode font. > > You expect that based on your customizations? If so, can you show > those customizations? The default font is not CMU Typewriter Text, so > you must somehow tell Emacs you want this font instead. I believe CMU Typewriter Text is in effect based on the following.   And the setting was made either through the menu-set-font or M-x customize interface. 26.3 on mac osx mac-ct:-*-CMU Typewriter Text-light-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x59) 26.3 on openbsd xft:-PfEd-CMU Typewriter Text-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x59) 28 on linux xft:-PfEd-CMU Typewriter Text-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x59) --- start of quote from ~/.emacs (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:background "gainsboro" :foreground "black" :height 201 :family "CMU Typewriter Text" :foundry "nil" :slant normal :weight light :width normal))))... --- end --- >> But, maybe Emacs's Unicode handling is half baked. > > Why, of course! "Half baked" is actually an understatement. Emacs > doesn't really grok Unicode at all... Emacs can't be as bad as Microsoft at Dos6 and Windows7.   [1] So sad to be on this 2001-2020 timeline when 50 years ago the HAL-9000 was imagined for 20 years ago and they were expecting it in 10 years, then! Footnotes: [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/27/21082228/microsoft-windows-7-black-wallpaper-fix-update-support-patch -- VL