On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:40:33 +0100,
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:40:03 +0100
> > From: Tim Schumacher <t...@datenknoten.me>
> >
> > I have problem with some characters. One Example is for Example 0x27FC. I
> > have
> > installed a font from
> > https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/27fc/fontsupport.htm that
> > should
> > render the font. But I still get the box with the number.
>
> Install the latest version of the Symbola font, and the problem will
> go away.
Yup, that solved it, but now I have the next problem that this Character does
not displays: đť•Š
> > To reproduce this issues:
> >
> > C-x 8 d RET 27FC RET
> >
> > Which produces this: ⟼
> Most likely, you have some other font on your system which claims
> support for the corresponding block of Unicode codepoints, but in
> reality doesn't have a glyph for that character. If that font is
> examined by Emacs before the one you installed, you will see the box
> with a hex code.
>
> The advantage of installing Symbola is twofold: (1) Emacs knows about
> Symbola and will automatically use it if available; (2) it is a free
> font, unlike some of those mentioned by that URL. (And Symbola
> supports a lot of other characters, so installing it is a net win.)
What is a bit strange, that on linux, emacs uses „DevaVu Sans“ to display these
characters:
character: ? (displayed as ?) (codepoint 10236, #o23774, #x27fc)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x27FC
script: symbol
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base
to input: type "C-x 8 RET 27fc" or "C-x 8 RET LONG RIGHTWARDS
ARROW FROM BAR"
buffer code: #xE2 #x9F #xBC
file code: #xE2 #x9F #xBC (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
(#x1058)
I would rather use DejaVu than Symbola, because the symbols look nicer. Is there
a way to get uniscribe to use another font than symbola to render these glyphs?
Thanks and a happy and successfull new year!
Tim
