Re: Central European/Cyrillic display support for Carbon Emacs

[Magnus Henoch]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <address@hidden> writes:

> Recently, display support of Central European and Cyrillic characters
> for Carbon Emacs (without ETL fonts) is added to CVS.  These
> characters are supposed to be displayed by one of the followings.
>
>   1. Using a predefined fontset "fontset-mac".
>      (set-frame-font "fontset-mac")

This works for me.

>   2. Creating a fontset from a Mac Roman font.
>      (set-frame-font
>       (create-fontset-from-mac-roman-font
>        "-apple-lucida sans 
> typewriter-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-120-mac-roman")
>

I don't have that font, but substituting Monaco works.

>   3. Extending an existing fontset.
>      (set-frame-font
>        (fontset-add-mac-fonts "SOME-EXISTING-FONTSET"))

Didn't try that.

> You can test it with `C-h h' or `M-x list-charset-chars RET
> cyrillic-iso8859-5 RET'.
>
> Steven Tamm and I have exchanged emails about this feature, but these
> characters are not displayed in his environment.  We could not figure
> out what's the difference, so I would like to ask Carbon Emacs users
> to test whether this feature works or not.  Please use -Q option
> (e.g., `/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q' from
> Terminal.app) when invoking, and include the OS version together with
> the primary language you chose when installing Mac OS X.

I have Mac OS X 10.3.6, English version.

Thanks a lot for this!  Being able to read both Latin-1 and Cyrillic
letters, instead of just seeing hollow boxes, is very nice.

Magnus