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Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters
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rahed |
Subject: |
Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:18:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (windows-nt) |
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> At a guess, I suspect you are running under X. This means you have either a
> fontpath setting that points to directories containing the fonts your X server
> is able to provide or you have a font server configured. The boxes indicate
> that emacs wants to display the characters with a specific font, but it cannot
> find that font (either in your font path or from the font server).
>
> There are a couple of points to keep in mind here. If your connecting to the
> solaris box from a remote system, such as a workstation, then the fonts need
> to
> be available to your local workstation X server, not on the solaris X server.
> In this case, the issue is with your local X configuration or the fonts it has
> available.
>
> You can use a program like xfontsel, which will allow you to select fonts from
> those which are available to the X server. Use this program and try to
> identify
> a suitable font. Set the font for emacs to this font and things should work.
> This can be done in a number of ways, but to begin with and for
> experimentation, set it on the command line using the -fn option (I think its
> -fn, check the manual). Don't forget that since the font names contain *, you
> will need to quote the font string to prevent the shell from trying to expand
> the *. Once you have a font that works, set it in either your .Xresources
> file,
> your .emacs file or via customize.
>
Thank you for your detailed reply.
I set a new unicode font with xset but when I use xfontsel to look at
the chars there are only boxes there.
So the issue is with Solaris.
--
Radek
- squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, rahed, 2007/04/13
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, Tim X, 2007/04/14
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters,
rahed <=
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, Peter Dyballa, 2007/04/24
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, rahed, 2007/04/24
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, Peter Dyballa, 2007/04/25
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, rahed, 2007/04/26
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, Peter Dyballa, 2007/04/26
- Re: squares in buffer instead of utf-8 characters, Karl Hegbloom, 2007/04/25