Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?

[Stefan Monnier]

> > BTW, I agree that the fontset management could be made simpler (I think
> > it's not just a question of the doc being dense or incomplete).
> 
> Given that I cannot deduce what fontsets (all these -0, -1 etc) are

I'm not sure what -0 and -1 you're referring to.
I have the impression that you're referring to the -1 in
-misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-*-1, in which case it has nothing
to do with Emacs or with fontsets.  It's in your Xresource setting and
specifies a font whose CHARSET_ENCODING is 1 (I suspect that it it intended
to only match fonts whose CHARSET_REGISTRY is iso8859, so that together
you get iso8859-1 which I'm sure you recognize).
But maybe that was obvious and you're actually talking about something else.

> P.S.  Apparently, the configuration of the site cannot be changed
>       (given that Netscape can break).  Thus without a clean fix which
>       can be put in the site-file Cyrillic is not going to be usable in
>       Emacs...

Maybe something like

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
 "-misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-ilya,\
cyrillic-iso8859-5:-etl-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-5")
(set-face-font 'default "fontset-ilya")


-- Stefan