Re: german quotes and mule

[M G Berberich]

Hello,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:56:59 +0100, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> Am 08.01.2007 um 21:56 schrieb M G Berberich:
>
>> using mule-ucs for editing UTF-8 encoded files I have a problem.
>
> Why do you use mule-ucs? GNU Emacs 23, or Unicode Emacs (23), can  
> handle UTF-8 natively ...

Oh, seems I'm not using mule-ucs, only mule -- I mixed this up. 

> Just make sure that your environment contains LC_CTYPE or LANG
> defined à la "de_DE.UTF-8" (check the locales your system supports)
> and everything works. 

I have done this and it's not working.

> Well, you need to have a good font. 

I'm using Bistream vera Sans Mono, which has german quotation-marks.

> Or you can try to update to a more recent version with the
> font-backend, enable this at configuration time, and it will give
> you fontsets. I did not come to this, recently ...

I have font-backend which gives me subpixel-hinted glyphs for my
normal font, but the german quotation-marks are from some other
bitmap-fonts (see
<http://www.forwiss.uni-passau.de/~berberic/emacs-utf-8.png>).

        MfG
        bmg

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