Re: set-default-font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:09 -0400
> 
> In my ~/.emacs (version 27.1-1.1.x86_64, I believe) I have a function
> containing
> 
> set-default-font "-*-*-regular-r-*-*-*-180-*-75-*-*-iso8859-1")

This setting is redundant, because Emacs does that by default.  I
suggest that you simply delete it, you shouldn't see any difference.

> Secondly, to fix my ~/.emacs can I just edit "set-default-font" and
> change it to
> "setup-default-fontset"?

I don't think you should need that.

> Thirdly, I long ago upgraded from any "Latin" character sets to UTF-8
> and, to me, that means I shouldn't be specifying any "*iso8859*" fonts. 
> What command output would show me the available font(set)s I could use
> in place of the 8859 stuff?

Right, deleting that line will also solve this problem.