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GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27 1998 on darwin

I am looking for suggestions about what fontset to use, or what fonts
to use to make a fontset, or something like that, so that I can
pleasantly read MULE stuff.  I think I have these choices:


1. Do the default, which seems to use the font

 -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-1

This isn't able to handle many international fonts.  (Well, it can do
accents and such in French, German, and Spanish, but that's about it.)


2. I could use "standard fontset", which can handle a lot more
international fonts (e.g., it lets me see Japanese characters in the
passage below), but is butt-ugly (in my opinion).  This option does
not let me *pleasantly* read MULE stuff.

     -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard


3. Construct another fontset by hand in, say, my .Xdefaults file.


4. Download some other fonts from somewhere.  (I have intlfonts-1.1
already.)


Does anyone have suggestions for either 3 or 4?  Or is there something
easier I could do?  (Or harder: should I build GNU Emacs again,
telling it to use some fancy new fontset as the default?)

> What is *the* way to learn about all this MULE stuff?  I have a
> distinct feeling I must be misunderstanding something basic here.  I
> mean, here's (日本語) some Japanese text, so I must be doing something 
> right, but I still don't understand it.

-- 
John H. Palmieri
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