From: David Mazieres <dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu>
To: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Problems with unicode characters under emacs and Xorg
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 04:26:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuu8ueq4.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z6orqvb.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu>
dm-list-email-notmuch@scs.stanford.edu writes:
> I just installed the ttf-symbola package from AUR and ran fc-cache (not
> sure if necessary). Now the problem is completely gone. Not only that,
> but I even get the little memo symbol instead of a box with the hex code
> point number.
>
> Thank you so much! This was driving me nuts for months.
Sadly, I spoke too soon. This does fix the particular problem that I
posted, and makes the situation better, but I'm still getting occasional
lockups, presumably because symbola does not cover every possible
symbol. For example, I had another email containing U+8BDD (CJK UNIFIED
IDEOGRAPH-8BDD), and this one still caused my emacs to spin for many
minutes, before displaying a box with 8BDD in it.
So unfortunately the problem seems to be that any character not
supported by an installed font takes about 2-5 minutes of CPU time to
resolve. And of course most characters that I'd use are in installed
fonts, except that I can control what's in the emails I receive, so this
makes notmuch very painful to use. But if no one else is running into
the problems, then I may be able to get around it by installing whatever
fonts other people have installed.
Thanks,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 6:57 Problems with unicode characters under emacs and Xorg David Mazieres
2020-11-02 8:49 ` David Edmondson
2020-11-02 9:21 ` dm-list-email-notmuch
2020-11-02 10:09 ` David Edmondson
2020-11-02 10:32 ` dm-list-email-notmuch
2020-11-02 12:26 ` David Mazieres [this message]
2020-11-02 12:55 ` David Edmondson
2020-11-03 21:59 ` Tomi Ollila
2020-11-03 22:19 ` dm-list-email-notmuch
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