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Subject: Re: Impossible to use 'terminal' font in XEmacs/mule
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 21 Apr 1997 10:56:03 -0700
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:45:39 -0400 (EDT)
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

>  > >>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.
> 
> The terminal fonts with the dec-dectech registry and encoding are 
> considered unfit for displaying ascii by the MUEL code that
> decides these things.  I would have to agree since the lowercase
> characters are replaced by weird T-bars and stuff.  If you do
> this
> 
> (set-charset-registry 'ascii
> 	(concat (charset-registry 'ascii) "\\|dec-dectech"))
> 
> then the dec-dectech fonts will be considered usable for ASCII.

  this just seems inherently silly.  This basically means you cannot
display fun little characters outside of ISO8859-1 in a buffer without
defining your own frigging character set!

  Do _any_ packages that do this work in Mule?  ANY?  Specifically, I'm
thinking of the latex package that shows some math stuff inline.

-Bill P.

