Re: Intlfonts

[Per Starbäck]

mule.texi:

> graphical display, you need to have a suitable font.  If some of the
> characters appear as empty boxes, you should install the GNU Intlfonts
> package, which includes fonts for most supported address@hidden
> you run Emacs on X, you need to inform the X server about the location
> of the newly installed fonts with the following commands:

me:
> With emacs 21.4 I get no empty boxes after "C-h h" with Intlfonts
> installed, but with the current (as of a couple of days ago) cvs emacs
> I get a lot of those, for example for Georgian (not present in 21.4)
> and Hindi (OK in 21.4!).

Eli:
> Please go to these characters and type "C-u C-x =".  Then look at the
> character set that the CVS Emacs uses for those characters.  My
> crystal ball says that in the CVS version these characters were
> translated into Unicode, and you don't have a Unicode font installed
> that covers these characters.

Yes. they are mule-unicode-* characters. My question is still
primarily if there is anything more that should be written in the
documentation about how to avoid those empty boxes, now that intlfonts
isn't enough anymore. I think many users might wonder about this. (I'm
currently using a Fedora Core 4 system with every font package
installed + Intlfonts, which they unfortunately don't include.)