Re: Special Characters on Mac Emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

Discussion of development versions of Emacs, as explained in INSTALL.CVS
should take place in emacs-devel or emacs-pretest-bug so that problems may
have a chance of getting fixed before the release.

Please,


        Stefan


>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@web.de> writes:

> Okay, let me wrap up how things work out for me:

> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman)

> seems to be an easy way to make Emacs behave like one would expect it to:
> all special combinations (umlauts, euro symbol, accents) work.

> To make Emacs display the stuff the following works:

> (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec

> "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco,
>          ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman,
>          mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-apple-lucida
>          grande-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-m-0-mac-roman,
>          mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-apple-bitstream vera sans mono
>          bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-m-0-mac-roman,
>  latin-iso8859-15:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman,
>  latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman"
> )

> (set-face-font
>   'default "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco")

> It seems, however, that Emacs really only uses the first (ascii) part, so
> I tried changing it to:

> (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec

> "-apple-Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono-regular-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco,
>          ascii:-apple-Bitstream Vera Sans
>          Mono-regular-r-normal--13-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman,
>          mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-apple-lucida
>          grande-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-m-0-mac-roman,
>          mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-apple-bitstream vera sans mono
>          bold-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-m-0-mac-roman,
>  latin-iso8859-15:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman,
>  latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman"
> )

> Interestingly now Emacs explodes into the debugger and claims that no font
> matches.  For some reason the very same font works fine with:

> (set-face-font 'default "-apple-Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono-regular-r-normal--13-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman").  Only then the
> special characters don't display correctly.

> What is it that makes Emacs find the font in one instance and not in the
> other?  And what makes Emacs accept the fontset containing a Monaco with
> mac-roman encoding(!) but display special characters, while loading the
> Bitstream font (also with mac-roman encoding) can't display
> special characters?

> The emacs info pages can't really help me.  I don't really understand what
> all those characters and numbers in a fontset stand for...  But this doesn't
> change the fact that emacs doesn't even find my font to include it in
> the fontset.

> Regards, Ulrich