Re: getting unicode chars to show on Windows

[Jason Rumney]

On Aug 30, 12:22 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:

> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Lucida Sans Unicode")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "courier new")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Fixedsys")
> (set-frame-parameter nil 'font "FixedsysTTF")
>
> but i do need to set size because the size spec is not equivalent
> among fonts. e.g. One font at size 14 will be too large/small for
> another font at 14.

(set-frame-parameter nil 'font "Lucida Sans Unicode-12")

Appendix C.7 in the Emacs manual contains a section about font names.
It is a bit X specific - stating which naming schemes work for Xft and
X fonts, but on Windows the first three methods should work.