Re: Fonts not displayed

[Kevin Rodgers]

Joost Kremers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having a weird font problem on a recent install of Emacs, as shown here:
>
> http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~kremers/Emacs-font-weirdness.png
>
> As can be seen, the text in the text area looks like a bar code or something.
> The fonts in the menus is not affected, but the tool tips are.
>
> This is on a Ubuntu 9.10 for PowerPC installation, with Emacs 23.1.1. The
> screenshot shown here is an Emacs instance started with `emacs -Q'.

What does `C-u C-x =' display when point is before one of the bar code
characters?

> I've tried selecting a different font through the menu "Options | Set Default
> Font...". This does change the dimensions of the Emacs window (so some
> adjustment to the new font is made), but any font I've tried is displayed in the
> same way...

Does that affect the font information displayed by `C-u C-x ='?

> I'm not entirely sure if this is an Emacs issue or whether something else is
> wrong, but so far it only seems to happen with Emacs. I'm hoping someone has an
> idea what might be going wrong...

Very weird indeed...

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA