Re: fontset(s) in xemacs 21.1.8

[thhsieh@linux.org.tw]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 05:17:45AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> ~/.Xresources
> 
>        XEmacs*FontSet: -isas-*-*-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-gb2312.1980-0,-*-big5-0,-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1

This setting seems strange. How can you set both -*-gb2312.1980-0
and -*-big5-0 together? In my knowledge, the fontset should be set
for only one specific locale, for example, if you want to use Big5:

XEmacs*FontSet: -*-16-*-big5-0,-*-16-*-iso8859-1

or if you want to use GB2312:

XEmacs*FontSet: -*-16-*-gb2312.1980-0,-*-16-*-iso8859-1

That is to say, if you want to display different encoding, you have to
change the fontset setting and the locale when starting XEmacs. This
is a normal way for other Xi18n programs. But since I am not so familiar
with XEmacs, so I don't know if there will be other cleaver way.

If you use your setting, the best result I can guess is the system
just pick up -*-gb2312.1980-0,-*-iso8859-1 as its fontset when you
are in GB locale, or it just fault and use its defaults to create
the fontset. So the point is, don't mix the big5-0 and gb2312.1980-0
fonts anyway.


T.H.Hsieh