Re: display of ancient Greek chars (after: Re: set UTF-8 for a file (HTML))

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.02.2008 um 21:09 schrieb ken:

> Is there another variable:value pair I can include in the first  
> line (specified above) to make the Greek characters display  
> correctly in emacs?

No, not that easily (there were rich or augmented text modes  
mentioned on this list, but I don't remember). The problem you have  
in GNU Emacs is that you either need a (mono-spaced) font that has  
Latin and Greek glyphs (xfd can display a font's contents, you could  
also set for xfontsel a sampleTextUCS resource that combines Greek  
and some Latin to instantly show whether the chosen font is able to  
display it, you also can use fc-list to display only fonts that have  
Greek support: 'fc-list :lang=el', the "word" ``el´´ is from RFC-3066/ 
ISO 639, which you should know as HTML programmer) or you need to  
setup a fontset in which you combine font A to serve for Latin and  
font B to serve for Greek (and font C for Indic ...). Something like  
this might work (for one font size):


    (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec "-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-9- 
*-*-*-*-*-fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" t 'noerror)
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-1  '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-1"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-2  '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-2"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-3  '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-3"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-4  '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-4"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-9  '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-9"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-14 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-14"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier"       'latin- 
iso8859-15 '("adobe-courier" . "iso8859-15"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" 'mule- 
unicode-0100-24ff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" 'mule- 
unicode-2500-33ff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" 'mule-unicode-e000- 
ffff '("adobe-courier" . "iso10646-1"))
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0370) (decode-char 'ucs #x03cf)) '("courier new" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Greek
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x03d0) (decode-char 'ucs #x03ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Coptic
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0400) (decode-char 'ucs #x04ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Cyrillic
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0500) (decode-char 'ucs #x052f)) '("lucida sans typewriter" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Cyrillic Suppl
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0530) (decode-char 'ucs #x058f)) '("aramian unicode" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Armenian (sylfaen
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0590) (decode-char 'ucs #x05ff)) '("courier new" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Hebrew
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0600) (decode-char 'ucs #x06ff)) '("lucida sans typewriter" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Arabic
	(set-fontset-font "fontset-09pt_adobe_courier" (cons (decode-char  
'ucs #x0700) (decode-char 'ucs #x074f)) '("courier new" .  
"iso10646-1"))	; Syriac


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  Pete

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