Re: Calendar-like view of the org-agenda

["Jason F. McBrayer" <jmcbray@carcosa.net>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:38:53 +0200, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> I was going to suggest you try Liberation Mono; it's what I moved to
>> from Consolas for just this reason. However, I am confused about 
>> fonts
>> in Emacs. If I "C-u C-x =" at any character in this paragraph, I get
>> for example: : xft:-unknown-Liberation
>> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x4C)
>
> Look at the results under Windows (in 8 pt):
>
> http://i.imgur.com/qkavC.png [2]Some figures are simply missing dots 
> in
> their graphical representation...
>
>> If, however, I do this at the top right corner character above, I 
>> get :
>> xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans
>> Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x933) It seems
>> Emacs is using different typefaces... In any case, I do recommend
>> Liberation but I guess I should also recomment DejaVu Sans? ;-)
>
> DejaVu Sans is a bit better, but it must be in 9pt to be right... 
> while I
> really like smaller fonts.
>
> I still will give it a try for a couple of days. But, as of now, 
> nothing
> beats Consolas yet...
>

I /think/ that in X, emacs will select the closest font it can find to
in order to get the characters it needs. However, in Windows, it will
only use the default font (or whatever is explicitly specified for the
face), even if that font is missing characters. The only workaround
I've found for buffers that need a lot of Unicode characters is to use
DejaVu Sans Mono. Consolas is very nice, but its Unicode coverage is
not good.

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