Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion

[Jan D.]

2005-03-22 kl. 12.51 skrev Reiner Steib:

> On Mon, Mar 21 2005, Jan D. wrote:
>
> > If you have specified a font that is iso8859-1 and your locale is 
> > UTF-8, you
> > will get this message.
>
> The manual suggests to specify "iso8859-1".  Is this correct?
>
> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Font X") ]
> | REGISTRY
> | ENCODING
> |      These together make up the X font character set that the font
> |      depicts.  (X font character sets are not the same as Emacs
> |      charsets, but they are solutions for the same problem.)  You can
> |      use the `xfontsel' program to check which choices you have.
> |      However, normally you should use `iso8859' for REGISTRY and `1'
> |      for ENCODING.
> `----

Not if multilingual menu strings is to be used.  And "normally" more or 
less assumes the menu strings are in ISO8859-1, which is the case in 
Emacs now (they are even in ASCII as far as I know).

        Jan D.