Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken

[Robert Cernansky <hslists2@zoznam.sk>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:11 -0700 Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:

> > quoth the Lord Sauron:
[...]
> > > What should I do to fix Emacs?  I hear it's a very powerful and
[...]
> Much more confused than before.  I get why I'd want to use unicode,
> but the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup
> other than mine and they threw me off real quickly.

Did you try ran emacs in X also? Is there the same behaviour? In X you
can pres Shift + Left mouse click to select fonts.

You can also play with locale setting in your system. For example try
to start emacs with default/none locale:

$ LC_ALL=C emacs

To set emacs to use UTF-8 put this into your ~/.emacs file:

(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "" 'utf-8)
(setq process-coding-system-alist '((".*" . utf-8)))
(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))

But it should not be necessary if you use some UTF-8 locale in your
system (emacs will use UTF-8 by default then). You can also try to
change the 'utf-8' string to some other (non utf-8) enconding, for
example iso-8859-1.

Try to emerge some basic X.Org fonts, for example
media-fonts/font-misc-misc. Also emerge media-fonts/intlfonts.

I hope it helps.

Robert


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