bug#3994: 23.1; Problem of rendering cyrillic fonts on Mac OS X

[Konstantin Lepa]

Hi.

It's very strange :-( It's my Font Book's info (Mac OS X 10.5.8):

Thanks.

On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:53 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks.  When I open the attached font in Font Book and choose info  
> view (Cmd-i), it says languages are English, French, German,  
> Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese.  No  
> Russian.  And when emacs asks for fonts rendering Cyrillic, Terminus  
> says "no", according to NSFont-coveredCharacterSet API.  I am not  
> sure how TextEdit is detecting that it CAN render Cyrillic.  The  
> most useful thing at this point might be to examine that font more  
> closely using FontForge and see if it lacks some specification that  
> other Cyrillic fonts have.  And at the same time check what  
> specification it DOES have about Cyrillic.  Then we can decide  
> whether to try changing Emac's method or fixing the font.  (Or both..)
>
> -Adrian
>
>
>
> On Sep 19, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Konstantin Lepa wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > Cyrillic char 'я':
> > -- cut --
> >        character: я (1103, #o2117, #x44f)
> > preferred charset: unicode-bmp (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (U 
> > +0000..U+FFFF))
> >       code point: 0x044F
> >           syntax: w     which means: word
> >         category: .:Base, Y:2-byte Cyrillic, c:Chinese, h:Korean,  
> > j:Japanese, y:Cyrillic
> >      buffer code: #xD1 #x8F
> >        file code: #xD1 #x8F (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
> >          display: by this font (glyph code)
> >    nil:-apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1  
> > (#x1C0)
> >
> > Character code properties: customize what to show
> >  name: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER YA
> >  old-name: CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IA
> >  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
> >
> > There are text properties here:
> >  c-in-sws             t
> >  face                 font-lock-comment-face
> >  fontified            t
> > -- cut --
> >
> > English char 'z':
> > -- cut --
> >        character: z (122, #o172, #x7a)
> > preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
> >       code point: 0x7A
> >           syntax: w     which means: word
> >         category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
> >      buffer code: #x7A
> >        file code: #x7A (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
> >          display: by this font (glyph code)
> >    nil:-apple-Terminus-medium-normal-normal-*-20-*-*-*-m-0- 
> > iso10646-1 (#x5E)
> >
> > Character code properties: customize what to show
> >  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
> >  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
> >
> > There are text properties here:
> >  c-in-sws             t
> >  face                 font-lock-comment-face
> >  fontified            t
> > -- cut --
> >
> > Terminus font (english and russian layout) works very well in  
> > TextEdit.app.
> >
> > <TerminusMedium.dfont>
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
> >
> > > http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3994
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > please check C-u C-x = on the characters in question and let me  
> > > know what font they are actually using.
> > >
> > > (I suspect the problem is Emacs.app is now paying more attention  
> > > to what the font itself says it has characters for, but I'm not  
> > > sure.  Another test, try using Cyrillic characters with Terminus  
> > > in TextEdit.)
> > >
> > > thanks.