Debian Bug report logs - #107259
enable non-Latin-1 characters by default

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: enable non-Latin-1 characters by default

Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 01:18:51 +0900

Package: emacs20
Version: 20.7-10
Tags: patch

Though Emacs has a potential ability to display and input
various characters in the world, it cannot show its full
ability because of poor default font setting.

The default font setting fails to display non-ISO-8859-1
characters such as Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simplified),
Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Polish,
Russian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.  Thus, non-ISO-8859-1
people have to configure Emacs to use their mother tongue.

This situation is easily solved by having a resource setting
like /etc/X11/Xresources/emacs20 file with the contents of


Emacs.Font: fontset-standard


Please read info files (file emacs-e20, node fontsets)
for detail of the meaning of this line.  You can easily
test the effect of this file by hitting C-h H in Emacs.

---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
"Introduction to I18N"  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/

Message #12 received at 107259-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

To: tkubota@riken.go.jp, 107259-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#107259: enable non-Latin-1 characters by default

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:42:10 +0100

Hi,

I am trying to clean up the long list of old Emacs bugs in Debian.

On 2001-07-31 18:18 +0200, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:

> Package: emacs20
> Version: 20.7-10
> Tags: patch
>
> Though Emacs has a potential ability to display and input
> various characters in the world, it cannot show its full
> ability because of poor default font setting.
>
> The default font setting fails to display non-ISO-8859-1
> characters such as Arabic, Chinese (traditional and simplified),
> Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Polish,
> Russian, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.  Thus, non-ISO-8859-1
> people have to configure Emacs to use their mother tongue.

This may have been so in Emacs 20, but Emacs 21 handles this just fine.

> This situation is easily solved by having a resource setting
> like /etc/X11/Xresources/emacs20 file with the contents of
>
>
> Emacs.Font: fontset-standard

This has nasty side effects, e.g. you may get a font without bold or
italic variants.

> Please read info files (file emacs-e20, node fontsets)
> for detail of the meaning of this line.  You can easily
> test the effect of this file by hitting C-h H in Emacs.

No difference visible here, so I went ahead and closed the bug.  Feel
free to reopen if you see something different.

Sven

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