Re: Pango-like font fallback (was Re: Russian numero sign)

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:

> I went to install all the fonts I could find in my Debian Sarge.  And
> found cronyx-courier font, which looks nice _and_ has Cyrillic
> characters.  However, when I customize the default face in Emacs and
> set that font family, latin characters are still displayed in
> adobe-courier (though Cyrillic ones are shown in cronyx-courier)...
> And the customization doesn't take any effect after I restart Emacs...
> Any ideas?

Perhaps that because you don't have
-cronyx-courier-...-iso8859-1.  Emacs by default uses an
iso8859-1 font for ASCII.  To change it, you must create a
proper fontset by one of these ways:

(1) In your .emacs:

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
 "-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-fontset-cronyx17,
ascii:-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1")

Then, after you start Emacs, by selecting fontset-cronyx17
with s-mouse-1->fontset->cronyx17, Emacs change the default
fonts to cronyx-courier.

(2) Setting X resource:

When you set these resources,

Emacs.Fontset-0: 
-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-fontset-cronyx17,\
!ascii:-cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1

Emacs.Font: fontset-cronyx17

you can start emacs automatically with a proper font.

Another one time way is to start Emacs as this:

% emacs -fn -cronyx-courier-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1

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Kenichi Handa
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