[Mac-emacs-users] Faces problem

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>  > I'm having a weird problem when launching Emacs.app. This is the
>>  error message I get:
>>
>>  ---
>>  An error has occurred while loading `/Users/etrajano/.emacs':
>>
>>  error: "Fontset \"-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-mac\"
>>  already exists"
>>  [...]
>
>Hi Ernesto,
>
>Please do not use the .emacs file for Emacs 20.6 for Emacs 21 on Mac
>OS X.  Many things such as the fontset `fontset-mac' and the
>`mac-roman' coding system are now already defined in
>lisp/term/mac-win.el.  Try removing/renaming the .emacs file and then
>start Emacs.
>
>Also, Emacs must be started from the Finder at this time.  There was a
>message earlier on one of the mailing list describing how to pass a
>command line option to Emacs.  Please take a look if you need to do
>this.
>
>Andrew.
>
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I've had the same message using mac-emacs 21.1 on a G3 PowerBook 
WallStreet (233Mhz) running OS 8.1. I've managed to avoid this 
problem by using -- until I can figure it out -- a very minimal 
=2Eemacs file containing the necessary lines to get Latin-1 characters.

No matter what I do, though, Faces won't show as they should.

Let say I type the French word "O=F9" (where) and want it to show in 
bold-italic. What I get is a no bold and not slanted capital "o" but 
in a different font and a bold-italic "=F9" (\'u). Also, the text 
properties (the Faces) are not saved. If I save the file and then 
revisit it again, everything shows in the default. It looks like 
Latin characters and ascii (0-127) characters are not using the same 
font. Faces use to show correctly in Emacs 20.6 on the same machine.

I'm new to this. Hope I'm not distracting you with something obvious.

Thanks

pierre