From f0f62f71d05080f12900de087d8b0b2f249d2a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:13:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] XFree86 4 iso10646-1 fonts. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index c01ddf4f6a6..492bb05dfcc 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. + +XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have +minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding is meant to be a +reasonable indication of the repertoire). Emacs may choose one of +these to display characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then +typically won't be able to find the glyphs to display many characters. +(Check with C-u C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset +which sets the font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use +GNU unifont, include in the fontset spec: + +mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ +mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ +mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 + * Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif. When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the -- 2.39.2