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Re: The "name" parameter for #'make-frame


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: The "name" parameter for #'make-frame
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:45:36 +0300 (IDT)

On 29 May 2002, Sau Dan Lee wrote:

> Starting Emacs21.2 with --no-site-file -q, and using 
>        (make-frame '((name . "abc")))
> 
>        gives an error: (error Font `fontset-16' is not defined)
> 
> Using "123" instead  of "abc" gives the same  error.  However, using a
> string of  only accented characters  in iso-8859-1 succeeds!

Does it help to read the entry in etc/PROBLEMS whose header reads "Emacs 
fails to start, complaining about missing fonts"?

In a nutshell, I suspect your fonts are set up so that ASCII characters 
in a frame's name need some font whose fontset definition is incorrect or 
misformatted.



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