Fonts and Latin-15

[Alex Schroeder]

When Kai sends mail these days, his name is encoded in Latin-15
instead of Latin-1 like previously.  On my current system this ß looks
"bad" because it is not rendered in the default font.  It is a bit
smaller and a bit more to the left than my Latin-1 ß.

Mine, looks good:

  character: ß (04337, 2271, 0x8df)
    charset: latin-iso8859-1 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 
8859-1): ISO-IR-100)
 code point: 95
     syntax: word
   category: l:Latin  
buffer code: 0x81 0xDF
  file code: 0x81 0xDF (encoded by coding system emacs-mule)
       font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-1

His, looks bad:

  character: ß (07537, 3935, 0xf5f)
    charset: latin-iso8859-15 (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 9 (ISO/IEC 
8859-15): ISO-IR-203)
 code point: 95
     syntax: word
   category: l:Latin  
buffer code: 0x8E 0xDF
  file code: 0x8E 0xDF (encoded by coding system emacs-mule)
       font: -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--13-120-75-75-C-70-ISO8859-15

Is this my problem (I don't have enough Latin-15 fonts installed) or
Emacs' problem (because it is choosing a different font with a
different size AFAICT)?

My locale is this:

~% locale 
LANG=de_CH.ISO-8859-1
LC_CTYPE="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_TIME="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="de_CH.ISO-8859-1"
LC_ALL=

And my .Xresources contains:

*.font:         7x14
Emacs.paneFont: 7x14

This is on the GNU Emacs 21.2.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit,
Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-05-28 on confusibombus I built yesterday,
but I think this already appeared in Emacs 21.2.  But then again,
perhaps Kai used good ol' Latin-1 before that...  :)

Alex.
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