Subject: Re: bug#1096: The Emacs 23 cann't display the cjk extb characters again.

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:43:32 +0000

Quoting Kenichi Handa <[email-masked]>:

> > [email-masked] wrote:

> > > (if (display-graphic-p)
> > > (set-fontset-font
> > >  (frame-parameter nil 'font)
> > >  '(#x20000 . #x2fa1d)
> > >  '("*-Sun-ExtB" . "unicode-sip")))
>
> I've just installed a fix.  At least with Xft font backend,
> Emacs should be able to find a proper font for the Unicode
> SIP area (#x20000..#x2FFFF) now.

At least part of the problem here is that the font name contains a -, which is
not compatible with the use of xlfd as the internal representation of fonts.