Re: emacs fonts broken in my sid system

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:20:39AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
>  
>
> > Something I upgraded a few weeks ago turned the fonts in emacs 21 (X11) 
> > into squares and I don't know to diagnose it.  Can anyone help?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Paul Scott
> >
> >    
> Did you move to UTF-8 as your locale? 
I'm not sure if I did but I just reconfigured locales and selected only
en_US ISO-8859-1.

> Try installing all the X fonts
> and see if the squares automagically turn back into letters.
>  
I tried installing as many fonts as looked relevant when the problem 
happened.  Is there some particular package that installs all the xfonts.

> I've had to do something similar on a machine displaying
> Chinese/Japanese/Korean. Emacs' way of saying I can't display this font
> is to put up a square box. In the right font, it automagically works :)
>  
I knew what the square boxes mean.  I just need to find the right font 
or find where the wrong font is referenced by emacs21.

Thanks,

Paul