Re: problem with utf-8 encoding in Gnus

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, jas@extundo.com wrote:
> Yes.  Your fontset doesn't have the characters.  The following
> fontset works here:
> 
> -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1

I supposed (wrongly) that the bold variant would have the same
characters as the medium one.  I'm using the ucs-fonts package, and
the bold variant (7x14B.bdf) is TARGET1, which is the minimal UCS
range in the ucs-fonts package.  I guess I'll switch to a TARGET3 font
like the one you mention or 7x14.bdf when I need to view more of the
UCS range.  It seems like all the bold fonts in the ucs-fonts package
are TARGET1.

Unfortunately, I don't like the look of the normal variants at all
(they are too thin) so I'll have to keep switching back and forth.
I'll ask the maintainer of ucs-fonts about the plans to bring bold
variants up to TARGET3.

I wonder if Gnus could intelligently switch between a regular and a
Unicode font as needed.  I know I can do a manual switch with
shift-Mouse1 as an Emacs function and that's fine, but perhaps Gnus
could be smart about showing messages with characters unavailable in
the current fontset.

Thanks
Ted