Re: Availability of unicode glyphs on XP

[Lennart Borgman]

Please file a bug report with

   M-x report-emacs-bug


2009/6/10 Uwe Siart <usenet@siart.de>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using pretest Emacs 23.0.94.1 on both platforms W2k SP4 and XP SP3.
> By
>
> ,----
> | M-x describe-input-method RET rfc1345 RET
> `----
>
> I get the full list of RFC1345 mnemonics.
>
> On W2k almost all glyphs (aside from a couple of octal sequences) are
> displayed. On XP, however, I get a lot of blank boxes there, just as if
> all those glyphs were not included in the font.
>
> Both Emacsen have identical settings and I did not make any changes to
> the font variables ('fixed-pitch' points to Family:Monospace). I really
> think this problem is due to the underlying platform or settings of the
> same rather than an Emacs bug.
>
> But I have no clue where to begin my search. Can anyone give me some
> direction how to track down this problem? Could the system fonts in W2k
> be more complete than they are in XP? I can hardly believe.
>
> --
> Uwe
>