Re: [h-e-w] Using the fixedsys font in Emacs 21.1

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Yishai,

"Feldman Yishai" <address@hidden> writes:
> [...] the fixedsys font.  I have now installed version 21.1, but it
> refuses to switch to this font, instead sticking to Courier.

Just as a data point: I use Fixedsys successfully here.  I set it in
the registry, though.

> The font does appear in the font-selection dialog (w32-select-font),
> which returns the string
> "-raster-Fixedsys-normal-r-normal-normal-12-90-96-96-c-*-iso8859-8",
> but it doesn't set the font either directly or via set-default-font.

The bit about "iso8859-8" is probably because you are using a hebrew
system.  Up here this is "iso8859-1" of course.  Maybe the font family
has a bearing on the problem.  Courier is a Truetype font and has the
characters and encoding info for "iso8859-1" as well as for
"iso8859-8".  Fixedsys is a bitmap font and can only support one of
these.

so long, benny
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