From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:53:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Language Environments): Mention the requirement to have a suitable font
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(Language Environments): Mention the requirement to have a suitable font
installed, for displaying a given language.
---

diff --git a/man/mule.texi b/man/mule.texi
index 3626d7d73a4..3c26a8317ae 100644
--- a/man/mule.texi
+++ b/man/mule.texi
@@ -194,6 +194,14 @@ sign), Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, and
 Vietnamese.
 @end quotation
 
+@cindex fonts, for displaying different languages
+  To be able to display the script(s) used by your language environment
+on a windowed display, you need to have a suitable font installed.  If
+some of the characters appear as empty boxes, download and install the
+GNU Intlfonts distribution, which includes fonts for all supported
+scripts.  @xref{Fontsets}, for more details about setting up your
+fonts.
+
 @findex set-locale-environment
 @vindex locale-language-names
 @vindex locale-charset-language-names