On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> What does C-u C-x = give on your system
>>
>> character: b (98, #o142, #x62)
>> preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
>> code point: 0x62
>> syntax: w which means: word
>> category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
>> buffer code: #x62
>> file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil)
>> display: no font available
>>
>>> and do you have that font available?
>>
>> No, I don't seem to have
>> Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1
>> availble according to xfontsel.
>
> Three points
>
> 1. Did you build emacs with xft support?
>
> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1"
> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like
> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...".
Oops -- cut/paste error.
I don't have that font using the whole pattern either.
> You don't need to have DejaVu, but I would advise getting either
> DejaVu or bitstream vera.
I guess I can install more fonts, but I was hoping I could point emacs
at one of the rougly 4000 I've already got.
> 3. Your output and mine differ in one point (before the font issue)
> You have "coding system nil". I have "coding system utf-8-unix".
> Unfortunately I know very little about coding systems but do
> wonder why ours are different since we both did emacs -q.
> Unfortunately if we do emacs -Q to eliminate some system
> customization, there is no splash screen. The description of
> UTF-8 says it is for unicode. Perhaps your nil coding system has
> trouble with unicode, but I am afraid this has gotten outside my
> expertise.
I do have one computer where emacs does find a font for the "about"
screen, so I guess it's a matter of comparing the two.
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