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Glyphs in Private Use Area not displayed in Emacs CVS

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Message #46 received at 656-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: 656-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Alex Speed Kjeldsen <alex.kjeldsen <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#656: Glyphs in Private Use Area not displayed in Emacs CVS
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:44:03 +0800

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Looking at what you wrote above again, I think the problem is that 
> Emacs now looks in greater detail at which unicode characters fonts 
> have, rather than blindly using any iso10646-1 font for all unicode 
> characters. For characters in PUA you will need to explicitly tell 
> Emacs how to display them as follows, since Emacs cannot automatically 
> recognize which fonts contain the characters you want:
>
> (set-fontset-font "fontset-default"  '(#xe000 . #xf8ff) FONT-SPEC)

I have improved the documentation for fontsets, including adding several 
examples of the use of set-fontset-font, which seems to be the preferred 
way of specifying fonts for particular characters in Emacs 23.

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