Re: problem displaying latin accents with emacs and mac os X

[Peter Ilberg <peter.ilberg@ni.com>]

Pierre Albarede <albanews@free.fr> writes:
> There is no iso8859-1 font. Yet the default font (mac-roman) can
> display both mac-roman and iso8859-1.
> 
> After Reading The Fucking Manual, I have concluded that I missed GNU
> intl fonts. However, I cannot install them, because they rely on x
> ressources.

I've had the same problem and found the following entry in the
FAQ at http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/FAQ.txt quite helpful.
Just change the font to whichever one you prefer, because 9pt
Monaco is really small. You have to use one of the fonts that show
up in the completion list for set-frame-font and which have
non-zero size (as the entry points out). 16pt Courier mightn't be
in that list.

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** How do I create my own fontset?

To properly display latin-1 characters using 9-pt Monaco, do this:

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
"-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco,
ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman,
latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman")

and set-frame-font to "fontset-monaco".

You can also use any other font that has non-zero size in the list
returned by the function x-list-fonts.

-- Peter Ilberg <peter.ilberg@ni.com>