retitle 495249 emacs22: uses bad font for Russian UTF-8
thanks
On 2008-08-15 19:13 +0200, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> If I try to open Russian UTF-8 file with emacs22-x, I see empty squares
> in place of Russian letters. However, I have correct locale settings
> (LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8).
This does not really depend on the locale, I can confirm it with
de_DE.UTF-8 as well.
> It makes emacs22-x hardly usable by Russian
> user. The problem may be solved by hacking .Xresourses (Emacs.font: 9x15).
That's a workaround, yes.
> If I try to change font at run time, almost all fonts selectable from emacs
> menu have correct Russian letters.
Unfortunately the Courier font does not seem to contain them, and for
some reason Emacs uses just that font for UTF-8 encoded Russian (other
encodings are fine).
Regards,
Sven
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