Re: Emacs fonts and unicode

[Neal Becker]

Paulo J. Matos wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I grabbed emacs-cvs from gentoo package system portage. Current
> version is then:
> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
> 
> I am trying to view a couple unicode characters and have smooth
> characters. I have tried with Shift-leftmousebutton several configurations
> but all have something wrong. They don't look nice or they don't display
> the unicode characters. I want both.
> I have took a couple of screenshots:
> Misc Fixed: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pocm06r/emacs-misc-fixed.png
> Fontset startup 10dotmedium:
> http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pocm06r/emacs-fontset-startup-10dotmedium.png
> Fontset standard 16dotmedium:
> http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pocm06r/emacs-fontset-standard16dotmedium.png
> 
> The first is ok but doesn't display unicode (see the boxes)?
> The second is terrible but displays unicode.
> The third is perfect (except letters are probably too big) but no unicode.
> 
> How can I have the best of both worlds?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
I'm happy (so far) using:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-9"))

Haven't played much with unicode, though.