Re: Characters displayed small

At 17:52 on Jan 28 2006, Haines Brown said :

> I've acquired an annoying problem in my current version of emacs
> (12.4.1), which that accented characters are displayed in the window
> in a small size.

Either your version needs an urgent upgrade, or it is 21.4 you are
talking about ? ;)

> For example, where I should see å I see å. The latter is half sized
> and in a different font face.

In the current case, I can see two a-ring in this sentence. I suppose
that your problem is more about the correct display of utf-8 chars and
not the encoding of your messages.

> I assume my current font provides the character, and I don't know why
> it switches to another. This applies to all accented characters.
>
> I also may have trouble getting the character to survive display in
> the news group, so what I am talking about are characters such as
> a-ring, o-umlaut, e-grave, etc.

It seems to me that you might have either a fontset problem (the
correspondence between the characters and the font used by emacs to
display them) or maybe a font problem.

For a fontset or encoding problem you can have some information about
the accentuated chars with C-x = or some more detailed info with
C-u C-x = while the point is on one of them. It will show the character
identity and what font is used to display it. Also look at
M-x describe-fontset, it will tell you the correspondence between
encoding and fonts. Maybe you will find the problem here.

For a font problem, as I can see that you are using GNU/Linux, maybe
that installing some additional fonts among xfonts-75dpi/xfonts-100dpi
and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded/xfonts-100dpi-transcoded or also unifont
could help to fix the problem...

HTH.
--
Sébastien Kirche
.

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