Re: Very small accentuated characters

Re: Very small accentuated characters

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Jan 17 2005, François Fleuret wrote:

> I have a weird behavior in gnus when displaying accentuated letters in
> summary or article mode.
>
> Basically, the accentuated character alone appear as very small, like
> if X was using a 5px font or something. I ran emacs with -q to check I
> did not mess something up in my .emacs, and the bug remains. I guess
> it can be related to some weird X server settings, but since it can
> also be pure gnus stuff, I am asking here.

Show us the output of `M-x describe-char-after RET' (C-u C-x =) on
both, the normal and the small accentuated characters.

> I found no clear relation between encoding and the problem. I found at
> least one message in 8bits encoding with the problem and one message
> with some fancy encoding (3 bytes per char ?) 

UTF-8?

> without the problem.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Very small accentuated characters

[François Fleuret]

<Reiner Steib> wrote on 31 Mar 2005 09:39:49 MET:

>> Basically, the accentuated character alone appear as very small, like
>> if X was using a 5px font or something. I ran emacs with -q to check I
>> did not mess something up in my .emacs, and the bug remains. I guess
>> it can be related to some weird X server settings, but since it can
>> also be pure gnus stuff, I am asking here.

It was actually a pure X-font related problems. Under Debian, I solved
it by installing the packages xfonts-100dpi-transcoded,
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded and xfonts-base-transcoded:

,------------------
| Description: standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
|  xfonts-base-transcoded provides a standard set of low-resolution bitmapped
|  fonts.  In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs)
|  and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients.
|  .
|  This package contains fonts in several ISO 8859 encodings (-2, -3, -4, -5,
|  -7, -8, -9, -10, -13, -14, and -15) as well as KOI8-R.  For the ISO
|  10646-1 and ISO 8859-1 encodings, see the xfonts-base package.
|  .
|  This package requires the xutils package to prepare the font directories
|  for use by an X server or X font server.
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Cheers,

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