Re: Fwd: [h-e-w] Unable to use Terminus bdf font under ntemacs 23

[Yu-ning Feng]

On 9/19/07, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> No, that is normal. Emacs should use a gb2312 font for gb2312
> characters. Since the font you specified was an iso10686 font, it only
> matches the mule-unicode character sets, and other fonts are
> automatically found - Arial Unicode being the first one encountered for
> gb2312.
>

I use ucs2any.pl with 8859-1.txt to convert the font to be a iso8859-1
font. It works now.

> It may be slightly confusing here that Windows has the ability to
> translate between unicode and various other character sets via
> codepages, so although Arial Unicode is a unicode font, it is able to
> provide a gb2312 version. BDF fonts are displayed directly by Emacs,
> with no such translation.
>

It does confuse me. Since things worked well when I was using Windows
font, I wrongly concluded mismatched encoding font is ok for all
fonts.

Maybe something could be written to the ntemacs faq? It costs me
several days to reach here.

Thanks very much for your help.
-- 
Yu-ning Feng