# HG changeset patch # User Dave Love # Date 1035497639 0 # Node ID f0fe517ae1cf573b65da9bba11159ee5963b454b # Parent 5dcac67745dc22ddff7b25b4cbf0d3016d5ac483 XFree86 4 iso10646-1 fonts. diff -r 5dcac67745dc -r f0fe517ae1cf etc/PROBLEMS --- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Oct 24 19:59:14 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Oct 24 22:13:59 2002 +0000 @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Characters from the mule-unicode charsets aren't displayed under X. + +XFree86 4 contains many fonts in iso10646-1 encoding which have +minimal character repertoires (whereas the encoding is meant to be a +reasonable indication of the repertoire). Emacs may choose one of +these to display characters from the mule-unicode charsets and then +typically won't be able to find the glyphs to display many characters. +(Check with C-u C-x = .) To avoid this, you may need to use a fontset +which sets the font for the mule-unicode sets explicitly. E.g. to use +GNU unifont, include in the fontset spec: + +mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ +mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\ +mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1 + * Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif. When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the