Hello All, I tested emacs 24.2.1 on Windows (8) with
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt, which, as the name suggests, is a UTF-8 encoded file that contains text in various languages, and special symbols such as the euro. I found that Courier New contained several missing glyphs, so I experimented with other fixed-width fonts and got fewest unrecognised characters with DejaVu Sans Mono. Firefox displays all the characters, even though its default fonts "Times New Roman", "Arial" and "Courier New" did not do well in emacs. I found http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-07/msg00624.html, where the poster said: "I /think/ that in X, emacs will select the closest font it can find to in order to get the characters it needs. However, in Windows, it will only use the default font (or whatever is explicitly specified for the face), even if that font is missing characters." Another poster in that thread said in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-07/msg00646.html that font substitution seemed to be working for him with a binary that he got from http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/ On Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 - Precise Pangolin) I see that emacs 23.3.1 displays all the symbols in the default font (whatever it was; I did not have to change it) and in any other font that I tried, although on Linux only a handful of fonts were available. Why is emacs able to display all the characters on Linux but not on Windows? Regards, John Brown.
