Re: Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

>> On Ubuntu 20.10, I compiled and installed the git master version of
>> emacs. When I try to browse the web with eww, I find that all Chinese
>> characters will show as garbled.
>>
>> Any hints for fixing/solving this problem?
>
> You need ‘set-fontset-font’ to tell Emacs what font to use for the
> (language) script. Example,
>
>   (set-fontset-font t 'devanagari "Noto")
>
> This sets Noto font for Devanagari script in the default fontset. ‘t’ is
> for default fontset.

Emacs should display Chinese characters just fine on its own without any
configuration needed.

But it's hard to tell what the problem is since "garbled" doesn't really
tell us much.  Garbled how?

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