some utf8 chars are terrible small.

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Uwe Brauer writes:

 >    > Start by nuking the "18" (which says "use this many pixels", and due
 >    > to the implementation will vary in screen size for bitmap fonts):
 > 
 >    > XEmacs.default.attributeFont: -*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*
 > 
 > I now tried 
 > M-: (set-face-font 'default
 > "-*-courier-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*")
 > deleting the 18 has a terrible effect on the font, chars to
 > large and to thin, but the UTF8 symbols in question *do not*
 > change,

That's not entirely surprising.  It's somewhat surprising that the
main font changes.  However, the UTF-8 symbols are coming from a
different font from the main font.

BTW, when are you getting the infinity symbol?  Is this related to
X-symbol or in general text?

 > in fact they were better represented in 21.4.21... :'(.

That's not entirely surprising.  In 21.4, you're using mule-ucs, and
the non-Latin symbols are being translated, probably to Japanese
characters.  Very likely you have more fonts available that way.

 > I did not compile with xft support, could that  be the reason?

Xft support might give you better, even much better, results.  But I
can't promise that, because it's not done, and you could run into some
of the remaining issues.  Sorry I can't be more helpful in advance,
but I'm just as happy to see \infinity as ∞. :-)

I think you should try it, though.