Re: 23.0.60; describe-char gives wrong information

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.01.2008 um 09:18 schrieb Kenichi Handa:

> Did that slowness happen only after my recent change?

Yes. Could it was introduced before, but for me it became existing  
when I updated after receiving your eMail yesterday.

> And, how did you disable font-backend via an X resource"?

Probably badly expressed. I have two lines in ~/.Xdefaults:

        Emacs.FontBackend:              x
        !Emacs.FontBackend:             xft

When the xft option is on, GNU Emacs crashes during start-up.


> As far as I remember, you can't do it.  Via X resouce, you can only
> specify which font backend to use.  If you configure Emacs
> with --enable-font-backend, the only way to suppress it is
> by the command line argument "--disable-font-backend".

When using this option on the command line, GNU Emacs works much  
faster, when I've configure it before with --enable-font-backend. It  
scrolls up or down at normal speed. And there is one more difference:  
I can see a file name like

        RGB äöüæÆÜÖÄ Kopie.txt

as

        RGB äöüæÆÜÖÄ Kopie.txt

while it otherwise is displayed as

        RGB aouæÆUOA Kopie.txt

> > Almost no open box symbol appears, which is simply great, but I am
> > not completely sure whether the contents of the braces is always
> > right (I am using utf8.txt from the Kermit distribution).
>
> What is "the contents of the braces"?


The character as described outside. For example:

        [Ȫ]  022A  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
        [ȫ]  022B  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS AND MACRON
        [Ȭ]  022C  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE AND MACRON
        [ȭ]  022D  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE AND MACRON
        [Ȯ]  022E  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE
        [ȯ]  022F  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE
        [Ȱ]  0230  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON
        [ȱ]  0231  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE AND MACRON

It's this file: ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/charsets/utf8.txt

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