Re: Cyrillic, utf-8 and windows

[Jason Rumney]

Sam Steingold <address@hidden> writes:

> when I type using cyrillic-yawerty, I get this:
> 
>   character: а (07120, 3664, 0xe50, U+0430)
>     charset: cyrillic-iso8859-5
>              (Right-Hand Part of Latin/Cyrillic Alphabet (ISO/IEC 8859-5): 
> ISO-IR-144.)
>  code point: 80
>      syntax: w        which means: word
>    category: y:Cyrillic  
> buffer code: 0x8C 0xD0
>   file code: 0xD0 0xB0 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-unix)
>     display: no font available

There seems to be a bug in the font handling of the Windows
version. Courier New (the default font) has Cyrillic characters, and
most versions of Windows support iso8859-5 - you can verify this: if
(w32-get-valid-codepages) lists 28595, then it should be supported;
so Cyrillic should display automatically. But I just checked and it
doesn't seem to be the case.