Re: incorrect fontification of non-ascii chars on Mac OS X 10.4

[William Henney]

Hi Mitsuharu

Thanks very much for your reply.

On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:15 AM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> > > > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:53:58 -0500, William Henney  
> > > > > > <address@hidden> said:
>
>
> > Hi, Accented characters are not fontified correctly.
>
> I can't reproduce it either with fontset-mac (the default one) or with
>
>   (create-fontset-from-mac-roman
>    "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-mac-roman" nil  
> "test1")
>   (set-frame-font "fontset-test1")
>
> while I can reproduce with
>
>   (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
>    "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-test2,
>     ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-mac-roman,
>     latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-mac- 
> roman")
>   (set-frame-font "fontset-test2")
>
> Aren't you using a fontset defined with
> create-fontset-from-fontset-spec ?

Yes, that is correct. I had changed fonts using the font menu, which  
presents a list of fonts that seem to have been made using create- 
fontset-from-fontset-spec. Everything is fine if I use create-fontset- 
from-mac-roman-font as you suggest.

> Besides the above problem, I'd rather not recommend the use of
> create-fontset-from-fontset-spec on Carbon Emacs because it introduces
> tons of wrong glyphs.  For example, "×" is displayed as "W", "ý" as
> "}", and so on.

Ah yes, so it does. I hadn't noticed this since I rarely use anything  
outside iso-latin-1.

Can create-fontset-from-fontset-spec be fixed? If not, presumably its  
use should be avoided in the fonts listed in the font menu.

Cheers

Will