[20177] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs C-h h and international fonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Mon Feb 11 14:37:21 2002
Message-Id: <200202111937.OAA20325@cutter-john.mit.edu>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, aatharuv@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 14:37:19 -0500
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
I know this is a bit old
>Subject: emacs C-h h and international fonts
>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:
>
> <snipped>
>
> * 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.
This occurs because on Linux, unlike other platforms,
/usr/athena/lib/X11/fonts/intlfonts is not in the default font path.
This can be fixed by adding the directory to the catalog in
/etc/X11/fs/config , or otherwise adding that directory to the font
path.
Arun
