On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 18:14, Jason F. McBrayer <jmcb...@carcosa.net> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:34:48 +0530, Aankhen wrote: > >> That's odd. I'm using Emacs 24 on Windows 7 64-bit (and before this >> I've used 23 on both 7 and Vista), and my font is set to Consolas. >> Emacs happily substitutes other fonts where Consolas is missing glyphs >> (see the attached screenshot). The only snag is that it takes a while >> to find a suitable font, at times. >> >> I'm using a precompiled binary from emacs-for-windows.[1] Perhaps it >> has special support for font substitution or something… > > Huh. I looked at the HELLO file, and you seem to be right. It's pulling in > fonts as needed for various South Asian, East Asian, and Middle/Near Eastern > languages, but still failing horribly with unicode box drawing, as well as > various symbols (like the recycle symbol, which we use abundantly on > identi.ca). Perhaps Consolas falsely reports that it has those symbols.
Box drawing seems to work okay here, whereas the recycling symbol is missing (it just shows a box with the hex code to indicate the missing glyph). It’s probably down to whether you have any monospace fonts which contain those glyphs. Aankhen
