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Re: Central European/Cyrillic display support for Carbon Emacs
From: |
Magnus Henoch |
Subject: |
Re: Central European/Cyrillic display support for Carbon Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:43:44 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) |
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:
> Recently, display support of Central European and Cyrillic characters
> for Carbon Emacs (without ETL fonts) is added to CVS. These
> characters are supposed to be displayed by one of the followings.
>
> 1. Using a predefined fontset "fontset-mac".
> (set-frame-font "fontset-mac")
This works for me.
> 2. Creating a fontset from a Mac Roman font.
> (set-frame-font
> (create-fontset-from-mac-roman-font
> "-apple-lucida sans
> typewriter-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman")
>
I don't have that font, but substituting Monaco works.
> 3. Extending an existing fontset.
> (set-frame-font
> (fontset-add-mac-fonts "SOME-EXISTING-FONTSET"))
Didn't try that.
> You can test it with `C-h h' or `M-x list-charset-chars RET
> cyrillic-iso8859-5 RET'.
>
> Steven Tamm and I have exchanged emails about this feature, but these
> characters are not displayed in his environment. We could not figure
> out what's the difference, so I would like to ask Carbon Emacs users
> to test whether this feature works or not. Please use -Q option
> (e.g., `/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q' from
> Terminal.app) when invoking, and include the OS version together with
> the primary language you chose when installing Mac OS X.
I have Mac OS X 10.3.6, English version.
Thanks a lot for this! Being able to read both Latin-1 and Cyrillic
letters, instead of just seeing hollow boxes, is very nice.
Magnus