Re: Emacs 23.1.97 pretest

[Yu-ji Hosokawa]

Hello,

I think the problem is that the default font for Japanese chosen by
Emacs is not Japanese font.
Because even if I type `C-u C-x =' on "ゲ" on my Windows 7 box with
emacs -Q, Emacs says,

|        character: ゲ (12466, #o30262, #x30b2)
|preferred charset: japanese-jisx0208
|                  (JISX0208.1983/1990 Japanese Kanji: ISO-IR-87)
|       code point: 0x2532
|           syntax: w   which means: word
|         category:
|                  .:Base, K:2-byte Katakana, c:Chinese, h:Korean, j:Japanese, 
|:line breakable
|      buffer code: #xE3 #x82 #xB2
|        file code: #x83 #x51 (encoded by coding system japanese-shift-jis-dos)
|          display: by this font (glyph code)
|    
uniscribe:-outline-BatangChe-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-c-*-jisx0208*-* 
(#x1040)
|
|Character code properties: customize what to show
|  name: KATAKANA LETTER GE
|  general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
|  decomposition: (12465 12441) ('ケ' '゙')

BatangChe is the font designed for Korean.
"MS Gothic" is the suitable default font for Japanese Windows, IMO.

-- 
Yu-ji Hosokawa

|Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 20:14:37 +0300
|From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
|Message-Id: <address@hidden>
|Subject: Re: Emacs 23.1.97 pretest
>> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:07:31 -0700
>> From: Tak Ota <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Some Japanese characters don't render correctly.  One such example
>> character is the middle letter in the word game "ゲーム".  Another one
>> I found is the dot character here between 1 and 2 "１・２".
> 
> But Emacs says quite clearly what is the reason, I think:
> 
>>         character: ー (12540, #o30374, #x30fc)
>> preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
>>        code point: 0x30FC
>>            syntax: w         which means: word
>>          category:
>>                 .:Base, H:2-byte Hiragana, K:2-byte Katakana, j:Japanese, 
>> |:line breakable
>>       buffer code: #xE3 #x83 #xBC
>>         file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-dos
>>           display: no font available
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>>         character: ・ (12539, #o30373, #x30fb)
>> preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
>>        code point: 0x30FB
>>            syntax: _         which means: symbol
>>          category:
>>                 .:Base, K:2-byte Katakana, c:Chinese, j:Japanese, |:line 
>> breakable
>>       buffer code: #xE3 #x83 #xBB
>>         file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-dos
>>           display: no font available
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Could it be that you have no fonts for these characters?
> 
>