Re: utf8 and unicode characters

[Jason Rumney]

"Robert V. Baron" <address@hidden> writes:

> Let me run another question or two by you.  When I did not know the secret.
> I looked around and found some unicode info by Markus Kuhn. He had a bunch
> of ISO 10646 fonts for stuff including CJK.

Markus Kuhn is one of the XFree86 maintainers, right? So these fonts
were BDF fonts?

> I tried another approach.  I explicitly called w32-select-font with
> an argument telling it to allow variable width fonts -- I wanted to
> use MS Arial Unicode. Nothing happened when I selected the font.

w32-select-font is merely a way of selecting a font. It does not
change anything, it returns the name of the font you selected. To
change the Unicode font, you'll need to include the string returned
by w32-select-font in a fontset.

In the *scratch* buffer, insert "(w32-select-font nil t)" and type
Ctrl-J after it, that will show you the result of calling the function.

> I'm pretty sure that I don't have any bdf fonts on the machine.

What format were Marcus Kuhn's fonts?