Re: Emacs fonts and unicode

[Paulo J. Matos]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
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>  Am 02.05.2008 um 19:10 schrieb Paulo J. Matos:
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> > How can I have the best of both worlds?
> >
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>  Try to extend the fontset(s) you use with something like this:
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>   (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x2000)
>                                          (decode-char 'ucs #x206f))
> '("dejavu sans" . "iso10646-1"))  ; General Punctuation
>

Nothing seems to change by adding this .emacs.
Am I missing something? Font is of good size but still aliased and
without unicode.

>  Before you do so (for every fontset and each of its sizes) you should check
> which fonts have the characters you see as boxes. You are not restricted to
> iso10646-1 encoded fonts, you could also use CJK fonts, they just need to
> provide these glyphs. To determine their Unicode value, position the mouse
> cursor on each of them and type:
>
>         C-u C-x =
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>  You don't need to specify a whole Unicode character block, you can use an
> arbitrary range or even just one code point you want to specify.
>
>  --
>  Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
>  Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
> bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
> bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
>                                 – Rich Cook
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