Re: Charset nebie questions

I'm having mail problems ... if this has been properly answered already, forgive me, but it looks like so far it's been dropped on the floor. Nickolay> Not sure this is the proper place for the questions, but Nickolay> still ... I'm a total newbiew to programming for MULE Nickolay> though Lisping in XEmacs over 5 years. So, have several Nickolay> questions. This isn't really Lisp in the sense of the Lispref; this is well into internals. The practical interface will change completely as 21.5 gets polished up (effectively, you just need to learn to write Unicode.org-style files, see etc/unicode in the source distribution). Nickolay> I can understand 172 -- it is equal to (charset-id Nickolay> 'experimental-charset). 160 из 32 with highest bit set. Nickolay> BUT! where does the magic number 158 comes from? See src/charset.[ch]. There are huge comments there about this. There is some information in the Internals info manual, but it's a little out of date. Basically, 158 is an additional prefix to identify this as a private charset. Nickolay> The second question relates to font selection. Under Nickolay> windows, when I try to display a char from the charset, Nickolay> i get a warning: Nickolay> (font/notice) Unable to instantiate font for charset Nickolay> experimental-charset, face default Nickolay> So, what is the method to associate a particular font Nickolay> (potentially with font family that differs from the Nickolay> default font family) with a charset? On X, you do it with the "registry" property in make-charset. On Windows, you probably have to rewrite the C code (maybe CCL will do). See objects-msw.c about mapping charsets to fonts. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.