Re: Cocoa Emacs 23 & Unicode

[Ian Eure]

On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 20.11.2008 um 23:32 schrieb Ian Eure:
>
> > Is this a known issue?
>
> Not the way that you describe it! Check with C-u C-x = which font is  
> actually used ...
>
> > Is a fix planned?
>
> It's wishful that X11 and Cocoa Emacs 23 use the font(s) or  
> fontset(s) the user wishes to use. Usually *your* fonts are  
> substituted with rather exotic choices ...
Yeah, I understand that certain code ranges may need to be mapped to  
different fonts.


> For me the Monaco or NimbusMono “” are substituted from STHeiti, a  
> proportional font outside CJK. Both Monaco and NimbusMono have „, “,  
> “, ” ... It's just a bug!

You're right, it's getting changed to STHeiti for those characters.  
Know of any workarounds?

It seems that the characters are incorrectly mapped into CJK; This is  
from describe-char:

         category: c:Chinese h:Korean j:Japanese

I've sent a bug report.

 - Ian