Re: Eww can't display Chinese characters correctly.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:41 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

See the attached file for more information.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic Vocational and Technical University
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China

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