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From: Steve Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Impossible to use 'terminal' font in XEmacs/mule
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wmperry@aventail.com (William M Perry) writes,
in <86d8ro8iar.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com>:

>Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:
>>William M. Perry writes:
>>> Steve Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> > wmperry@aventail.com (William M Perry) writes,
>>> > in <86pvvov2q4.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com>:
>>> > 
>>> > >Any idea why it is _impossible_ to use this font in a XEmacs w/mule
>>> > >enabled?  This is bad bad bad.  This fails with all wildcarding turned on
>>> > >as well.
>>> > >
>>> > >-dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-120-c-*-dec-dectech
>>> > >-*-terminal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>>> > 
>>> > Both work for me using M-x set-face-font default.  I've got mule, but
>>> > none of the extras.
>>> 
>>>   But do the fonts actually _show up_ correctly?  Try visiting a web page
>>> with Emacs/W3 that uses tables (and borders).  If the borders show up as a
>>> bunch of 'q' characters, then its not correct.  Same thing works _fine_ in
>>> 19.15 or Emacs 19.
>>
>>Please provide the URL for such a page.

>  http://www.oz.net/~wmperry/tables.html

Using my normal startup (default face *-courier-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-m-*-*-*), 
I get `q' for horizontal line elements and `x' for vertical line
elements in the above w3 table display.  The alphanumeric text is fine, though.


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