Re: problems with ttf fonts (hebrew), can go back to courier font.

[Uwe Brauer]

   > In article <address@hidden>, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> writes:



   > It seems to be a bug.  What is the output of C-u C-x = when
   > you put cursor on an ascii character shown by an empty box?

With 
(set-face-font 'default "-*-courier-bold-r-*-*-18-180-*-*-*-*-*-*")

,----
|              position: 4 of 344 (1%), column: 3
|             character: SPC (displayed as SPC) (codepoint 32, #o40, #x20)
|     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point in charset: 0x20
|                syntax:        which means: whitespace
|              category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
|           buffer code: #x20
|             file code: #x20 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: by this font (glyph code)
|     x:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1 (#x20)
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: SPACE
|   general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
|   decomposition: (32) (' ')
`----
(set-default-font "Guttman Yad-Brush")

,----
| 
|              position: 4 of 311 (1%), column: 3
|             character: SPC (displayed as SPC) (codepoint 32, #o40, #x20)
|     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point in charset: 0x20
|                syntax:        which means: whitespace
|              category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
|           buffer code: #x20
|             file code: #x20 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: by this font (glyph code)
|     xft:-microsoft-Guttman 
Yad-Brush-normal-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x03)
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: SPACE
|   general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
|   decomposition: (32) (' ')
| 
`----


And again with courier

,----
|              position: 4 of 311 (1%), column: 3
|             character: SPC (displayed as SPC) (codepoint 32, #o40, #x20)
|     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point in charset: 0x20
|                syntax:        which means: whitespace
|              category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
|           buffer code: #x20
|             file code: #x20 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: by this font (glyph code)
|     xft:-microsoft-Guttman 
Yad-Brush-normal-normal-normal-*-21-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x03)
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: SPACE
|   general-category: Zs (Separator, Space)
|   decomposition: (32) (' ')
| 
`----


The last one of course is wrong