Re: Euro Sign and Bitstream Vera

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.01.2007 um 22:00 schrieb M G Berberich:

> But U+0102 gives the right character ‚€‘ (EURO).

Definitely not! A quite reliable source, from Kermit (utf8.txt), but  
also an application, UnicodeChecker) explain:

        [Ă]  0102  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
        [€]  20AC  EURO SIGN

Have you checked what gucharmap tells?

> > This is a new feature in Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 – and maybe it's
> > buggy. So you should consider to create a bug report. Then you'll
> > have contact with those who make the software!
> >
> > Where do the fonts come from? Do they come from fontconfig (fc-cache/
> > fc-list) or is standard X11 serving them?
>
> I suppose from fontconfig, because they are anti-aliased, how do I
> determine this?

Anti-aliasing is not delivered from libfontconfig – you have GTK  
enabled and GNOME in use! And it's actually libfreefont2 that  
provides the calls and means to anti-aliasing, but then it's GTK+2  
that makes use of these capabilities. Libfontconfig exists to  
determine a font by describing its features – and also alternatives/ 
substitutes, it's more of a human approach.

Whether you are using fontconfig or usual X11 you can determine by  
the syntax you use to describe the font. This one is fontconfig:

        Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman:weight=100

the next one is usual X11, so-called XFLD syntax:

-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0- 
iso10646-1


--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

"What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software  
'releases.'  Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of  
designers and quality assurance people in its wake."