Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Emacs and Unicode

[Andrew C. <ak...@sh...>]

Jacobo Myerston <ja...@ca...> writes:

> I have posted this question to emacs-help following Andrew Choi
> suggestion, but I din=B4t got an answer to my problem.
>=20
> I would like to use emacs21 with Tei in order to tag  some ancient
> greek texts in XML. The texts are in UTF-8, and emacs 21.3.50.1 is not
> displaying them properly.
>=20
> Now Jaguar has several fonts that can display unicode like Lucida
> Grande for example. I was able to change the default font to times
> using (set-default-font "-apple-times-*-12-*-mac-roman"), but I fail
> to change the default font to Lucida Grande.  I can't figure out how
> to write Lucida Grande in .emacs.
> I tried "lucidagrande" "lucida grande" and so on, but got always the
> same error:
>=20
> "Font `-apple-lucida grande-*-12-*-mac-romaN' is not defined"
>=20
>=20
>   some hints?

Please read the FAQ (http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/FAQ.txt) and
the on-line manual for information on fonts.

The current Mac OS implementation (see src/macterm.c) can only use
ordinary Mac fonts in mac-roman and certain CJK encodings, and fonts
whose encodings are represented in their file names (like those in the
converted GNU intlfonts).  It will be a bit of work to add support for
Unicode fonts.  If the font you need uses fewer than 256 code points,
perhaps you can use the same trick as was used for the GNU intlfonts.
Then you need to install something like Mule-UCS.  If anyone is already
doing that, please let us know.