From d6b7de9b227deb9bc83f1d3304b4003acca2651b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:21:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document problems with ISO-8859 fonts which actually include only ASCII glyphs. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 9522ee6d1e6..702d879a41a 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1,6 +1,26 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _. + +Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with +other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software +that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font +size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts +when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean +fonts have this bug in some versions of X. + +To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this: + + xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 + +If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the +problem. + +The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate +`fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run +`xset fp rehash'. + * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h. -- 2.39.2