Re: Unusable font on Emacs 23

[Chong Yidong]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Sorry if this has been discussed before; I haven't been following the
>> font-related stuff closely.
>>
>> When I use the following font in .Xresources, Emacs does not display
>> ordinary characters: they all appear as 1px spaces.  Strangely enough,
>> certain font-locked characters, like the scratch message, continue to
>> be displayed.
>>
>>  Emacs.Font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>
> On my system this selects
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal-ja-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1 as the font
> for upright ascii, whereas for italic characters it uses
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-O-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-80-ISO10646-1.

On Emacs 22, this gives:

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

On Emacs 23, I get (from cutting and pasting the contents of the
unreadable describe-fontset buffer):

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup