Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Andreas Schwab]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
> font-related stuff closely.
>
> When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
> ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
> certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
> be displayed.
>
>  Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

On my system this selects
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 as the font
for upright ascii, whereas for italic characters it uses
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1.

Andreas.

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