From: rahed <raherh@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:18:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1wiaxbpo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5wfwbj5.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> At a guess, I suspect you are running under X. This means you have either a
> fontpath setting that points to directories containing the fonts your X server
> is able to provide or you have a font server configured. The boxes indicate
> that emacs wants to display the characters with a specific font, but it cannot
> find that font (either in your font path or from the font server).
>
> There are a couple of points to keep in mind here. If your connecting to the
> solaris box from a remote system, such as a workstation, then the fonts need to
> be available to your local workstation X server, not on the solaris X server.
> In this case, the issue is with your local X configuration or the fonts it has
> available.
>
> You can use a program like xfontsel, which will allow you to select fonts from
> those which are available to the X server. Use this program and try to identify
> a suitable font. Set the font for emacs to this font and things should work.
> This can be done in a number of ways, but to begin with and for
> experimentation, set it on the command line using the -fn option (I think its
> -fn, check the manual). Don't forget that since the font names contain *, you
> will need to quote the font string to prevent the shell from trying to expand
> the *. Once you have a font that works, set it in either your .Xresources file,
> your .emacs file or via customize.
>
Thank you for your detailed reply.
I set a new unicode font with xset but when I use xfontsel to look at
the chars there are only boxes there.
So the issue is with Solaris.
--
Radek
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2007-04-14 9:27 ` squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters Tim X
2007-04-24 11:18 ` rahed [this message]
2007-04-24 14:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-04-24 18:34 ` rahed
2007-04-25 8:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-04-26 15:29 ` rahed
2007-04-26 15:47 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-04-26 3:46 ` Karl Hegbloom
2007-04-13 10:24 rahed
2007-04-13 14:15 ` Peter Dyballa
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