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Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion


From: Jan D.
Subject: Re: Problem with string to fontset conversion
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:04:42 +0100


The manual suggests to specify "iso8859-1".  Is this correct?

,----[ (info "(emacs)Font X") ]
[...]
| However, normally you should use `iso8859' for REGISTRY and `1'
|      for ENCODING.
`----

Not if multilingual menu strings is to be used. And "normally" more or less assumes the menu strings are in ISO8859-1, which is the case in Emacs now
(they are even in ASCII as far as I know).

(Sorry, maybe it wasn't clear...)  My question was aiming at the
Emacs.font X resource, not the menu bar fonts.

It depends. You should have a font that matches what characters you need to display. If you can get by with iso8859-1, then that is OK (western europe and american), but for asians, russians, arabics and others it is not appropriate at all.

        Jan D.





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