Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Hebrew font? supporting points

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, TAKAHASHI Naoto wrote:

> Yotam Medini writes:
>
> > http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/
> > the heb.utf8 example is nicely displayed with vowel poinst.
>
> Do you really think so?The font was designed by a Japanese who does
> not know Hebrew at all -- namely, me.I have no idea how nice (or how
> ugly) it is.

You could have used misc-fixed from XFree. (I think that by now it is also
part of X11). I think it includes both Hebrew and Arabic.

>
> > What font is used there?
>
> m17n-nr14.pcf
>
> > How do I tell bidi-emacs to use it?
>
> Read the "Fonts" section in the web page you mentioned.
> Then add the following lines in your ~/.Xdefaults file.
>
> Emacs.Font: fontset-m17n
> Emacs.Fontset-0: -m17n-mule-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-m17n

What is "m17n"?

Can I use an iso10646-1 font?

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