Re: Emacs not aware of Japanese fonts?

[Roland Mas <mas@echo.fr>]

Samuel Fung <bluehyacinth@i-cable.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to type Japanese in Emacs, apparently in vain.
> > 
> >   Except that I can't see any Japanese character on my screen.  Nice
> > little boxes instead, all looking the same, none looking as a Japanese
> > character.  So I guess it's a font problem.
[...]
> 
> On Slink, I can view the Japanese characters in Emacs first by installing
> the package "intlfonts-japanese" and then start Emacs with the parameter
> "-fn fontset-standard". Then inside Emacs, M-x set-language-environment,
> Japanese. That way you should be able to see the Japanese
> characters.

The `-fn fontset-standard' is what I lacked.  Now it works perfectly.

Thanks alot!

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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