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Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?
From: |
Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:13:40 +0000 (UTC) |
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Kai
=?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=
<Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>], who wrote in article
<vaf1y7huplb.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>:
> /----
> | character: ¤ (07444, 3876, 0xf24)
> | charset: latin-iso8859-15
> | (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 9 (ISO/IEC 8859-15):
> ISO-IR-203.)
> | code point: 36
> | syntax: w which means: word
> | category: l:Latin
> | buffer code: 0x8E 0xA4
> | file code: 0x8E 0xA4 (encoded by coding system emacs-mule)
> | Unicode: 20AC
> | font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-15
So it does not show which codepoint inside the font is chosen!
> | There are text properties here:
> | fontified t
> \----
>
> In the above output, it is easy to see if the glyph matches what it
> should be. I can do "man iso-8859-15" to look up what character has
> code 128+36, and then I can compare it with the glyph. And if the
> "man" command told me to expect a Euro sign, but I'm seeing a
> currency sign, then I know that something is wrong.
As I said, I *know* that the output is wrong. So how would what you
say help me to debug/fix the problem.
> As you can easily see, the font name can be different. And the glyph
> (directly after "character: ") is of course also different.
Is it the same glyph as in the buffer? So what is the point of
looking at *that*? ;-)
> You can tell Emacs to use the foo font for the bar encoding.
How? And how do I tell Emacs in which encoding this font actually is?
> Maybe
> you have (accidentally) told Emacs to use a KOI-R font for the
> iso-8859-5 encoding, or something like this.
With -no-init-file? I doubt it. ;-)
> If all else fails, you can of course also install fonts in your home
> dir and tell X11 about them, and then tell Emacs to use one of those...
I have seen machines where X server can't see user directories.
Ilya
Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/24
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/25
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/25
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?,
Ilya Zakharevich <=
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Oliver Scholz, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/28
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/28
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/29
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Jason Rumney, 2002/09/30
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/30
Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Jason Rumney, 2002/09/29