Re: font problem persists

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:


   Stefan> So what you're seeing is that the Hebrew and Greek chars
   Stefan> used in C-h H are not the same chars as the ones used in
   Stefan> utf-8 files (try C-u C-x = on each of those chars to see
   Stefan> which charset they are part of).

   Stefan> The Hebrew chars you see in C-h H are displayed using a
   Stefan> Hebrew font. The Greek chars you see in C-h H are displayed
   Stefan> using a Greek font. The Hebrew and Greek chars you don't
   Stefan> see in your utf-8 file are displayed with a Unicode font.

   Stefan> With Emacs-CVS ("soon" to become Emacs-22), you can set
   Stefan> utf-fragment-on-decoding, which should help for some of
   Stefan> those chars (probably the Greek chars, maybe not the
   Stefan> Hebrew).

Ok, what I don't understand is, if I use those UTF8 fonts of
http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi --the m17nfonts-- [1] then everything
works nicely. So are these fonts not REAL UTF8 fonts, as the courier
fonts I mentioned earlier?

Uwe 

[1] which seem to be UTF8 fonts,