Re: Use 7x13 fixed X font for Cyrillic

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Saturday, February 27, 2016 at 8:46:49 PM UTC, Javier wrote:
> From the command line font aliases are understood.  'emacs -Q -fn 7x13' 
> should work

Unfortunately that still produces 12x13 Cyrillic glyphs.

> You can check the explicit name of the font in 
> /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
> 
> 7x13         -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
> 7x13bold     -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
> 7x13euro     -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15
> 7x13eurobold -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15
>
> What I have in .emacs is like:
> 
> (when (equal window-system 'x)
>        (set-face-font 'default 
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1"))
> 
> Since you want to display cyrillic I changed iso8859 (latin1) to
> iso10646 (unicode) in the fontname.

I have the same in fonts.alias. However this still produces the same result:

emacs -Q -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1

> PS: Not related to your question, but this is also worth checking for
> setting a list of fonts and changing them on the fly with the keyboard:
> 
> Firefox-like zooming of fonts.
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CycleFontSizes