[17580] in Athena Bugs
emacs C-h h and international fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 24 17:06:20 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:06:12 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200002242206.RAA05799@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
If you type C-h h in emacs, it creates a buffer named HELLO with an
illustration of various scripts (from Amharic to Vietnamese, and then
some more after that). Unfortunately, our international font support
doesn't appear to work perfectly. The lossage depends on (a) whether
you specify a font when you run emacs, and (b) the platform.
The specific problems I've observed are:
* None of the international characters appear to display (they
show up as boxes) unless you specify a font. Any font I've
tried will do, including the various default fonts emacs
might pick (in third/emacs/src/xfns.c) if you don't specify
a font.
* On Linux, some scripts (Amharic, Arabic, Hindi, Lao,
Russian, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Vietnamese, Cantonese,
BIO5, and JISX0212) never appear to work, even if you
specify a font.
