RE: [h-e-w] look for help with emacs and chinese GB

[Eli Daniel]

Joe,

This is just an elisp error.  If the example you give is really in the FAQ,
it needs to be changed.

The problem is that you can't evaluate functions inside a quoted list.  The
simplest way to get this to work is to use the backtick operator:

(setq default-frame-alist
      (append
       `((font . ,(create-fontset-from-ascii-font "chinese-gb2312:-*-MS
Song-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-gb2312-*")))
       default-frame-alist))(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist

Or more simply,

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
             `((font . ,(create-fontset-from-ascii-font
"chinese-gb2312:-*-MS Song-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-gb2312-*"))))

The elisp manual has a detailed explanation of how this works (under
backtick) if you're interested.

-Eli Daniel

> hi
> firstly , thank you for your help.
> but i found another problem that when i add the lines below to my .emacs
>
> (setq default-frame-alist
>       (append
>        '((font . (create-fontset-from-ascii-font
>                   "chinese-gb2312:-*-MS
> Song-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-gb2312-*")))
>        default-frame-alist))
>
> emacs 21.1 reports error when starting
> " wrong type argument: stringp,(create-fontset-from-ascii-font
> "chinese-gb2312:-*-MS Song-normal-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-gb2312-*")      "