Re: [O] Calendar-like view of the org-agenda

[Aankhen]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 18:14, Jason F. McBrayer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:34:48 +0530, Aankhen wrote:
>
>> That's odd. I'm using Emacs 24 on Windows 7 64-bit (and before this
>> I've used 23 on both 7 and Vista), and my font is set to Consolas.
>> Emacs happily substitutes other fonts where Consolas is missing glyphs
>> (see the attached screenshot). The only snag is that it takes a while
>> to find a suitable font, at times.
>>
>> I'm using a precompiled binary from emacs-for-windows.[1] Perhaps it
>> has special support for font substitution or something…
>
> Huh. I looked at the HELLO file, and you seem to be right. It's pulling in
> fonts as needed for various South Asian, East Asian, and Middle/Near Eastern
> languages, but still failing horribly with unicode box drawing, as well as
> various symbols (like the recycle symbol, which we use abundantly on
> identi.ca). Perhaps Consolas falsely reports that it has those symbols.

Box drawing seems to work okay here, whereas the recycling symbol is
missing (it just shows a box with the hex code to indicate the missing
glyph).  It’s probably down to whether you have any monospace fonts
which contain those glyphs.

Aankhen