From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Fonts not displayed Date: 13 Nov 2009 11:22:49 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258112523 2805 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2009 11:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:42:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 12:41:55 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 1N8uXK-0005yP-KQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8uXK-0006SH-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:41:54 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cTARSbZgTiV37ozNhfoVeAiGiCuOEWlNufEE/DNNLiOUClzzzM Cancel-Lock: sha1:opBFhk9uNsDXsRrDWKLO9w0XQyA= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174637 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:69709 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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? Nothing unusual, I'd say: character: ; (59, #o73, #x3b) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x3B syntax: < which means: comment category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x3B file code: #x3B (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x1E) Character code properties: customize what to show name: SEMICOLON general-category: Po (Punctuation, Other) There are text properties here: face font-lock-comment-delimiter-face fontified t >> 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 ='? All that changes is the font name. BTW, if I start Emacs with a non-xft font, text is displayed normally. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)