Mercurial > emacs
changeset 34721:4a8980d062ad
Document problems with ISO-8859 fonts which actually include only
ASCII glyphs.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:21:55 +0000 |
| parents | 59030e61613f |
| children | 5f7e2f440020 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Dec 19 14:42:05 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Tue Dec 19 17:21:55 2000 +0000 @@ -1,6 +1,26 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs. +* Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _. + +Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with +other sizes as well, your text is corrupted, probably through software +that is not 8-bit clean. If the problem goes away with another font +size, it's probably because some fonts pretend to be ISO-8859-1 fonts +when they are really ASCII fonts. In particular the schumacher-clean +fonts have this bug in some versions of X. + +To see what glyphs are included in a font, use `xfd', like this: + + xfd -fn -schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 + +If this shows only ASCII glyphs, the font is indeed the source of the +problem. + +The solution is to remove the corresponding lines from the appropriate +`fonts.alias' file, then run `mkfontdir' in that directory, and then run +`xset fp rehash'. + * Large file support is disabled on HP-UX. See the comments in src/s/hpux10.h.