Re: Is it OK to use UTF-8 characters instead of entities?
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:56:45AM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:59:52AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> > On 2009-09-16 11:32, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> > > If that is OK, only problem is to find a font to use with Emacs22 that
> > > shows all these characters.
> >
> > IIRC, you can use UTF-8 directly with gettext, po4a and friends.
> > No need for hard-to-read XML entities.
> >
> > For Emacs: Sometimes a font is already available, you just have
> > to choose another one than the default. Shift+leftmouse lets you
> > choose from various sizes of "Misc" and "Courier" and sometimes
> > another font size gives you a font with the right characers.
>
> Fonts are such a dark art. Is there any documentation anywhare
> explining how they work in Linux, xorg, and/or emacs?
I have tried some pointer links at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html#_fonts_in_the_x_window
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