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Re: Emacs in Cygwin displays open boxes for all characters
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David Karr |
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Re: Emacs in Cygwin displays open boxes for all characters |
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Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:54:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Jun 1, 2:19 pm, David Karr <davidmichaelk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed Cygwin on a new Windows box, along with the Cygwin-
> built Emacs (and XEmacs, for comparison). I'm having some issues with
> XEmacs, but with respect to GNU Emacs, when I start it, all the
> characters show up as open boxes.
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> The console shows the following at startup:
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> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-*" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
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> Would this be better asked on the Cygwin list?
Never mind. I found several "font"-related packages in the available
Cygwin packages. After I installed them and reran Emacs, it now
displays reasonable fonts.